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Subject: Re: Ada Library, called, returns and continues ?
From: Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>
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"Implementation of bindings or the way of using them? "

Actually both

"I see, it is difficult to learn how to drive a car. In order to ease the
process you decided to build a new car by yourself... (:-)) "

Actually both of the cases are due to my desire to understand the code I am=
 writing even at the expense of power. I don't mean to knock the hard work =
of the GTk binding but it is difficult for new people to get started with i=
t. Now I can manage(I might try again soon) because I have made progress wi=
th C/C++ in the past few months but I couldn't understand many lines in the=
 examples a few months ago.

To pick one at random:
Cal : access Gtk_Calendar_Record'Class

Now I know this is a pointer to a C object but only because I basically get=
 C/C++ now.

If there was a simple little Ada widget toolkit that only had a C/C++ core,=
 then I think it would be very pleasant for newbies to program in, I person=
ally don't like messing around with pointers. It seems to me that C and fri=
ends are so strong these days because of inertia alone. I would love to wor=
k with more Ada code that was not just a thin binding.