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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,20dd8ed49a092517 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.27.14 with SMTP id g14mr7717354qac.1.1347896478247; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.90.129 with SMTP id bw1mr693749vdb.13.1347896478220; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: t12ni8qak.0!nntp.google.com!v8no6550365qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:41:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <106b2629-3428-4290-8c73-8f6b91b123a1@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.230.82.82; posting-account=vICoKAoAAACvprQdoU1Fu4jhuX0G_mBQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.230.82.82 References: <99575344-c301-4af2-9155-b6577bfb1ca6@googlegroups.com> <106b2629-3428-4290-8c73-8f6b91b123a1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Qt or Gtk? (from an Ada perspective) From: alb348@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:41:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-09-17T08:41:18-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, September 17, 2012 2:55:27 PM UTC+2, Patrick wrote: > Both of these toolkits are huge and mind crushingly complex. If anything = goes wrong, documentation and internet posts are pretty much the only way t= o solve the issue. I don't think there are enough posts for either of the = bindings for these toolkits and not enough documentation and examples to le= arn them well.=20 >=20 > If something goes wrong there are mailing list but I suspect you would ha= ve to wait for answers rather then looking up posts from peoples previous p= roblems.=20 That may be so, but unless you are on Windows, I do not see much alternativ= e to Qt/Gtk. As far as I know, most Linux/Unix apps rely on either Qt or Gt= k. QtAda and GtkAda, from the cursory look I gave to them, appear to have been= developed to a professional level. But then, as you say, the complexity mi= ght crush you. That why I was asking which one is easier to use.