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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: question on GtkAda
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:57:14 -0800
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Hello;

The way I understand it, is that GtkAda is a binding (thick) to Gtk+.

On http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/gtkada/ it says

"GtkAda supports the latest 2.14 stable releases."

But on http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html

It says the latest stable release is 2.22

There is a plan to have GTK+ 3.0 sometime,  from what I read,
will this mean GtkAda will be updated to that at some point
as well?

Another question: If someone want to do plotting from Ada, how
would one do that? GtkAda is just for making GUI?

I see there are libraries that uses Gtk+ for plotting, such as
Gtkextra http://gtkextra.sourceforge.net/  and
GtkPlot http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkplot/ , so, If I
install GtkAda, how would one use these libraries? do I need
to make binding to them as well?

Any one knows of applications using Ada to make plotting and
data visualization using GtkAda? The few apps listed on
the libre web site do not show that.

Are people using GtkAda in any real commercial applications?
It seems GPS is the largest known app which does that?

I am basically looking for a way to make a simple GUI in Ada,
and also be able to generate 2D and 3D plots. Just for trying
something. nothing commercial.

Thanks
--Nasser