Re: How to add a GTKAda?

[Marcus F <trenatos@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:11:29 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 06/16/2013 07:51 PM, Marcus F wrote:
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>  > It's supposedly in my PATH, but simply adding use gtkada tells me it can't
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>  > find it, do I need to specify the path in the USE?
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> If you're saying "use Gtkada;" without having said "with Gtkada;", then you 
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> don't know Ada well enough yet to be taking this step. Learn how to use packages 
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> in Ada 1st and then you'll be ready to play with GTKAda.
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> If you are using packages correctly, then you need to tell GNAT where to find 
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> the GTKAda packages and related files. Typically this is done with a "-I" 
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> command-line switch (see the GNAT documentation for more on this), but how you 
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> do this through AdaGIDE I don't know.
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> -- 
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> Jeff Carter
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> "In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to
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> eat Robin's minstrels, and there was much rejoicing."
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> Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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I used with.
I'm certainly new to Ada (A few days in), but I'm not new to programming, I usually learn best by examples and by altering code, which is why I wanted to play with GTK, I've done minimal GUI programming before in PortablE.

Thank you Jeff, I think that's the info I need to get on the right track.