Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

[Frederik Sausmikat <frederik.sausmikat@gmx.de>]

Tomek Walkuski wrote:
> I'm asking because I'm interested in this matter, maybe I will find
> time to start hacking this :)
>   

    Hi,

    I'd like to recommend the FLTK GUI library (http://www.fltk.org) as
    a good basis for such a project. It's very small in size and easy to
    use. Although it is written in C++ it uses a very C-ish style and
    omits the more 'advanced' C++ features which should make it easy to
    create an Ada binding (given it's small size it would even be
    manageable to transform it into an Ada project). It is cross
    platform (runs on X11, Win32 and MacOS, no native widgets however)
    and is licensed under the LGPL (modified to allow for static linking).

    FLTK also comes with Fluid, a very nice GUI designer, which stores
    the form data in a textual meta format, so it would be possible to
    create Ada code from it (one could even teach Fluid to create Ada code).

    There are some video introductions on programming with FLTK (Flash
    needed):

        http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk-videos/

    They are ment as tutorials for beginners but may give you an overview.

    If you want to give it a test drive, be sure to grab the latest
    1.1.x snapshot from the website. There has been a lot of maintenance
    and bugfixing since the 1.1.7 release.

    Regards, Freddy

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