From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0a15c81dbb968cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-18 03:47:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!206.228.247.155!not-for-mail From: Ed Cogburn Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Best option for portable GUI? Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:47:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5d6fdb61.0301170303.625bc6c9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.228.247.155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042890436 25086157 206.228.247.155 (16 [49761]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33171 Date: 2003-01-18T06:47:15-05:00 List-Id: Dale Stanbrough wrote: > Jano wrote: > > >>Hello everybody. >> >>I'm near to start a project of some size using Ada. I intend to make >>it portable, at least between Windows and Linux. >> >>Part of this project is a GUI. I have no previous experience out of >>the Win32 API, but I guess there are some libraries for GUIs in Ada >>that would help me in my objective of portability. I seek advice on >>what one to choose, because I'll need to learn it in detail. >> >>I've heard of some options: >> >>GtkAda: Seems a good option but with steep learning curve? >> >>GWindows: it's portable? >> >>Claw: isn't free... >> > > > another is Qt... The questioner didn't state how important it was, but keep in mind that Qt isn't free (as in access to source code) on the Windows side, it is on the Linux side.