Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

[Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>]

Lucretia wrote:

> Ok, just to remind others, there is wxAda which I started and got
> stuck with (http://wxada.tigris.org/). I thought I'd post it to the
> end of this rather than start a new topic.
> 
> I thought i'd post a link here just in case there is interest. The
> topic just cam up on IRC again and there are 2 main problems:
> 
> 1) wxValidator is derived from wxEvtHandler which in turn is derived
> from wxObject; the wxEvtHandler is a non-copyable object yet the
> others are copyable.
> 2) The link between the C++ and the Ada side in relation to events is
> dubious and can crash the app. The C++ instance needs a pointer to the
> Ada instance and vice-versa.
> 
> Luke.
Reccommend that people convince Bradly Assoc. to add Ada bindings for 
Gino.  I asked them once and they implied willingness if there was 
sufficient market for it.  They have bindings for C, Delphi, VB, 
Fortran, and a couple of .net implementations.  http://www.gino-graphics.com


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