Re: AdaGames

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:48:25 -0600, Erik Sigra wrote:

> torsdagen den 28 mars 2002 18.55 skrev du:
>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:47:27 +0100, Erik Sigra wrote:
>> > Because it has many useful widgets and other features. And it is
>> > required for KDE.
>>
>> But what has this to do with Ada and graphics? You can use GtkAda
>> instead.
> 
> But then it wont be a KDE application.

It should still run under KDE, provided the necessary libraries are
installed.  Unless you want the game to be "integrated" with other
applications the only drawback would be the difference in look and feel.
(Many commercial games have a L&F quite different from the OS they run
on already, and I haven't heard much complaining on that account.)

That said, it would be nice if all the OSS toolkit/WM writers got
together and RFC'd a standard for themes, so that you could specify a
theme for your desktop and have all the components of diverse origin
pick it up and display it reasonably consistently.  (I believe I've
heard that a move is being made in that direction, at least between Gtk*
and KDE, though I haven't been following it very closely.)

Also: would there be any unsurmountable problems to creating Qt/KDE Ada
bindings a la GtkAda?  I know this sort of thing requires a vast amount
of work, but if it appears to be feasible maybe all it would take is
someone to start it, whereafter help could be recruited from others with
like interests.

Finally, I also thought I had heard that someone had some Ada bindings
for the OSS (Lokisoft?) game SDL, which might serve instead of Gtk* or
KDE either.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas