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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Qt or Gtk? (from an Ada perspective)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:47:25 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:34:41 -0700, alb348 wrote:

> Note: what I actually need to use is a very small subset of the
> functionality offered by these toolkits, in that I will only use some
> basic GUI functions like text edit boxes, as well as file I/O and text
> processing. But not much beyond that.

Another option, if your GUI needs are simple enough, might be to build 
Zenity command lines in Ada, and run them using System.OS_Lib, capturing 
their stdout and return codes.

http://library.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_a_system_command

I have used Zenity to "rapid prototype" things in BASH scripts, but it 
would be nice to do the actual programming in Ada.

You can test the GUI parts from the command line without compiling 
anything. It would certainly be quicker to learn than GTKAda!

- Brian