Re: ANNOUNCE: GtkAda 1.2.11

["Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Hmm...Is this happening on the self extracting ZIP archive you downloaded or
something inside
the archive...I was able to download and run it with no problems.

Note that in the past I have had problems with downloads from the Europe
site so perhaps
in a few days when the www.adapower.net/gtkada mirror updates you could get
it from
there.


"Al Christians" <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote in message
news:3AAD4196.5EAA1CBF@easystreet.com...
> Does the windows version work?  I download GtkAda-1.3.11.exe and
> nothing happens when I run it.  From the command line (WinNT 4.0 SP6)
> it says can't be run in DOS mode. From the desktop, an apparently
> blank console windos appears and vanishes in a fraction of a second.
>
>
> Al
>
>
> Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> >
> > GtkAda 1.2.11 release
> > ---------------------
> >
> > GtkAda is an Ada95 graphical toolkit based on Gtk+ version >= 1.2.2. It
> > allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada95 using Gtk+.
> >
> > The primary download site is http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda
> >
> > New features in 1.2.11 include:
> >
> > - Support for GNOME is detected and handled automatically by configure
> > - Many additional GNOME widgets bound (but are provided as is: they have
not
> >   been tested).
> > - A new utility is provided to ease the automatic generation of bindings
for
> >   new Gtk+/GNOME widgets. See the GtkAda User's Guide for more details.
> > - Under Windows, non ASCII characters are now displayed instead of being
> >   truncated.
> > - New routines to update and copy XML trees easliy in Glib.XML
> > - Documentation additions
> > - various refreshing/displaying problems fixed in the GUI builder under
> >   Windows
> > - new functions Gtk.Viewport.Get_Bin_Window,
> >    Gtk.Notebook.Get_Allocation_[Height, Width, X, Y]
> > - gmodule is now bound in Glib.Module
> > - libglade is now bound in Glade and Glade.XML, and obsoletes the
capability
> >   previousely provided in Gtk.Glade
> > - Gtk.Glade.Register_Generate allows to add easily support for new
widgets
> >   in Gate
> > - The following widgets are now recognized automatically and no longer
> >   require the use of Gtk.Type_Conversion: Gtk_Item, Gtk_Check_Menu_Item,
> >   Gtk_Radio_Menu_Item, Gtk_Tearoff_Menu_Item, Gtk_Tree_Item.
> > - A new function, Gtk.Unchecked_Cast, provides an alternative to
> >   Gtk.Type_Conversion.
> > - The Gtkada.Canvas has been partly rewritten and now uses less memory.
> >   It also provides scrolling while moving items.
> > - A few bug fixes, as described in the known-problems file