Re: GtkAda under Win32 - How To page announcement

[jcreem@mv.mv.com (Jeff Creem)]

In article <swhalenF6oot9.3tE@netcom.com>, Steve Whalen
<swhalen@netcom.com> wrote:

>Thanks for putting GtkAda for Win32 together.
>
>I tried it with GNAT 3.11p and have barely had time to test it, but
>did notice that a few of tests (like color selection) in testgtk.exe
>"crater" the program (i.e. it just disappears).  Do you know if that
>could be related to 3.11p vs. 3.10p? Or do I need to break out the 
>debugger?
>
>Steve
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I should have put together a test report of what currentlty works
and what does not work. I think somewhere in the readme I mentioned that
there are certainly problems with this stuff.

 At the moment there are several curl up die type bugs (not different
with 3.11p or 3.10p).

I have not had the time to track them down yet but note that the
gtk library that this is built with is still in a beta stage (it
is being done to port GIMP to win32) And right now even GIMP under
win32 has plenty of curl up and die bugs. (Although it is not too bad
really).

I would not yet recommend this for any deployed applications (under
win32 that is).


Note that I started putting together a new release based upon the
0.5 version of the bindings and a new release of the Gtk library but it was
somewhat less stable than the last release (And I noted a similar loss in
stability for the GIMP version too so I guess it is not really a surprise).

So to sum it up...This is certainly a work in progress.. As new versions
of GIMP and or the GtkAda binding come out I will do new releases. I am 
hoping that with the next "stable" release of the Gtk library that some
of the version mismatch issues will be solved too.

At some point I might like to get a MS C++ compiler so I can debug and
track down problems in the Gtk stuff that may be specific to using the
Gtk library as a general purpose library (rather than just a port to
support GIMP).

Nice to know people are looking at this!.

Jeff