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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: GtkAda for professional GUI-Application ?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:58:10 -0500
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Speaking as an "application" developer, using GWindows, CLAW or other native
framework will always give you a superior product on Windows. I prefer to
always abstract the GUI and write a version of the GUI front end for each
platform in their native framework (GtkAda for Linux, GWindows for Windows,
Cocoa for MacOSX, etc.)

Of course if you are just "hacking" a front end that end users will not be
using, GtkAda works OK on windows.

Support for GWindows/GNATCOM and GtkAda are both available from ACT
(sales@gnat.com)

David Botton


> But now we are unsure, wether its mor attractive to
> choose GtkAda for the Gui-Components, because then the
> Client - Library will compile in Gnu-Linux-Environments too.
> Unfortunately GtkAda 1.3.12 ( Windows ) cannot handle
> German - Umlaute. Further i did play around with the
> "testgtk"-Application for windows and noticed that its
> not so stable and smooth as Gwindows is.