From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9451537593407b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-24 13:56:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <0onr7.9325$Ck.1581110@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: GtkAda or Ada or a binding? Keys X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:51:25 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.128.41 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 1001364685 213.104.128.41 (Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:51:25 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:51:25 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13303 Date: 2001-09-24T21:51:25+01:00 List-Id: "David Botton" wrote in message news:mailman.1001363062.27045.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > You may also want to start with GWindows (if you are on Windows) which is a > lot easier and has a number of very nice tutorials to get you started in GUI > programming. (http://www.adapower.com/gwindows) Which is something that GtkAda lacks, good tutorials. If I was only targetting Windows I'd use GWindows, primarily for the reason that it does have tutorials, even if GtkAda offered me the option to port later. Even before the tutorials Gwindows was easy to learn, but to have them makes a real difference (clears up any misconceptions, etc). > Later if you need the cross platform support you can go back to GtkAda. The reason for using GtkAda is to develop cross platform apps. I wanted to create a different kind of application from the toy programs that i've been playing with so far. Thanks for the suggestion and keep up the excellent work on Gwindows. Hmm, maybe it is better to start with GWindows since, in the past GUI programming was something I let JBuilder, etc worry about. > David Botton > > BTW You may want to try in the future asking the GtkAda e-mail list first > when looking for specifics. Oky doky. I thought it'd be best to ask here in this instance but unless it's a specific Ada issue I'll ask on GtkAda. Thanks David, Chris