Re: Thickening Ada GTK or Vala Binding ?

[Robert Matthews <ignore@ramatthews.free-online.co.uk>]

Patrick wrote:

> If I was going to write c functions to hide away the GTK ugliness why
> don’t just write them in Ada and help the community.
> 
> Does anyone have some small code examples that might help with this ? Or
> tips on how I could make another wrapper around Ada GTK ?
> 
> that being said, this does not have to end up being a full reusable
> wrapper around GTK, it could be codes samples that other people could use.
> I think it is very hard to write reusable code as everyone’s needs are
> different.

I encountered a similar problem with GtkAda - rather low level
and the marshalling stuff needed careful study each time I came
back to the package.

So I started writing "Simple_Gtk", code available here:
http://www.ramatthews.free-online.co.uk/

I haven't worked on it for a few months so have not tried
it with the latest GNAT - and so have not used the latest
Ada way of interfacing to C code. However it worked (it
includes test code) and covers a number of the widgets.
Perhaps it will give you some ideas.

Robert.