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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: GtkAda using Glade
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:41:50 -0700
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On 5/19/2011 3:02 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> I think you should really give Glade a try (I think you said you
> didn't). Creating the various widgets (with appropriate parameters!),
> stuffing them into containers, connecting call-backs constitute a really
> boring (and error-prone) part of the development. That's what Glade does
> for you.
>
> In the end, you get your interface built, and a bunch of empty
> procedures that you have to fill to do anything useful. These are nicely
> separated, therefore you know precisely the parts that you need to fix,
> and those that are generated (although looking at what is generated is
> quite instructive, of course).

The above sounds like how also Matlab GUIDE works. It is the 'Glade' for
Matlab. A GUI builder I use all the time to make GUI's with with matlab.

It also creates all the callback stubs, and I just go fill in the body
of the callbacks with the specific action. Very convenient, and will not
dream of developing GUI in another way. This way I concentrate on design
and layout of the GUI and let GUIDE do all the handwork. I got so good
at this, I can write one small GUI application in 1-2 days  with Matlab GUI.

For GtkAda, it will be nice if someone may be at wiki Ada or somewhere
can have a link to collection of applications written in GtkAda, where
one can download them and run them.  So far, I know of only 2-3 small apps
written in GTKAda.   Where are all the open source apps written in GTKAda?

--Nasser