Re: GtkAda or Ada or a binding? Keys

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

You may also want to start with GWindows (if you are on Windows) which is a
lot easier and has a number of very nice tutorials to get you started in GUI
programming. (http://www.adapower.com/gwindows)

Later if you need the cross platform support you can go back to GtkAda.

David Botton

BTW You may want to try in the future asking the GtkAda e-mail list first
when looking for specifics.


----- Original Message -----
From: "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>


> Hi,
>
> Does GtkAda have any support for getting key presses from the user?  The
> problem I've got is to use GtkAda to make Tetris like game (in order to
> improve my understanding of GtkAda.  What?  It's less boring than making a
> spreadsheet or something).  I need a way to check if there are any key
> presses pending, if there are then I need to get them and do the
appropriate
> action.
>
> In TPascal it would probably make use of readkey and keypressed.  If
GtkAda
> doesn't support such a thing (which is likely) what about Ada?  Is there a
> way to check for an input in the buffer, and get it if there is?  Will I
> have to bind to C or something?  Or is there another solution?
>
> I thought about using get(character) but that'd mean the user would have
to
> input a character on every step and it wouldn't go anywhere until it got
> one.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris