Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

[Lucretia <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk>]

On Jan 13, 10:06 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> Gtk is slow. And after all, there is GtkAda here. If you are prepared to
> buy poor performance of Gtk and its alien to Ada design concept, then you
> can branch from GtkAda 2.8 which was GMGPL, or maybe 2.4, I don't remember.
> (In case you will go this path let me know. I am interested in such efforts
> because I maintain the GtkAda contributions project.)
>
> The only goal of a *true* Ada GUI library, IMO, could be a library which
> would have a chance to become a part of the Ada Standard Library. So Gtk is
> just non-starter here. We cannot depend on third-party libraries.

I'm not saying that's how *I* would do it, just how it could be done
for the purists. I personally would sit a tiny C layer below the Ada
GUI lib and interface to that. You only need the UI stuff here.

Anything else that might be needed, file/dir notifications, other OS
stuff can also be abstracted.

If you bypass the native OS you end up with yet another GUI which
doesn't look like the native OS you are using. People don't like that.
Simple.

Luke.