Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Justin Time" <francois_fabien@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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Le samedi 29 d�cembre 2012 01:48:37 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt a �crit :
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>> I suspect that this workflow is the problem that Dmitry is referring to. 
>> It
>> doesn't mesh well with incremental, agile development, where you are
>> constantly tweaking both the GUI and the code that supports it.
>>
>The gate3 tool is not intented for incremental development.
>It just ouputs a sketch (with stubs for the callbacks).
>It is almost stupid but saves time of typing repetitive code.
>For complete newbies, they can get a prototype very quickly.

IMHO, all projects need incremental development. The number of times that 
you know exactly what you want beforehand is vanishingly small.

>And the advantage of Gtkbuilder is the good decoupling between UI
>and code. One can modify the XML/glade file for layout and re-run the app
>without any recompilation

Sure, but that only works if you know exactly what windows/controls you want 
the first time. That's hardly likely.

>The perfect tool does not exist, but if you have one stupid tool that saves 
>you
>3 hours on a 3-day project that's not bad. On a 1 man-year project,
>you don't care.

I'd rather use a smarter tool that scales well, because I don't have time to 
learn a dozen tools for different sized projects. (If saving your 3 hours 
requires a six hour learning curve -- which is optimistic -- what are you 
gaining.) This is the same reason that I use Ada for virtually all of my 
programming - even for throwaways (because it's not that unusual for the 
throwaways to get used more than you think and need to be modified).

Anyway, tools choices are a fairly personal thing.

                                  Randy.