Re: GUI with Ada?

[Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>]

Am 18.12.2009 21:44, schrieb Nasser M. Abbasi:
> Hello;
> 
> I have not kept up with Ada for sometime. I was wondering, if someone wants 
> to develop a simple GUI (plots, menus, buttons, graphs, etc..) using Ada, 

In most cases i found the GUI not worth the effort, eg. i case it is
intendeted to present the results of a lengthly computation which run
anyway in the background. In such cases i am using simple text based
result files and GNU plot. It is avaiable on both platforms.

In case you plan for an interactive GUI; well i guess GtkAda would be
the right choice or using a completely different language ..

Michael


> and have the code compile to a .exe on windows and linux, which is the 
> current most popular software pieces needed for the GUI?
> 
> Assuming I will be using GNAT. Which gcc version should I be using these 
> days which has the latest Ada support in it? Should I be using gcc directly 
> for Ada programming these days, or use GNAT GPL 2009 version from Libre web 
> site http://libre.adacore.com/libre/ ?
> 
> I know there are few choices for the GUI, and just wanted to check what is 
> the "best" choice do you think for that.  One with a GUI builder would be 
> nice (i.e. where one can pick the components and lay them out to design the 
> interface). This will be an school program, nothing commercial. I wanted to 
> try to write some basic finite element code in Ada, but need a GUI part for 
> the simulation part.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Nasser 
> 
>