From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!cyclone.southeast.rr.com!news-server.columbus.rr.com!fe2.columbus.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <6530a40c.0408240309.36f53e75@posting.google.com> <8429999a.0408241225.144c0066@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:42:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.31.62.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: fe2.columbus.rr.com 1093488149 65.31.62.213 (Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:42:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:42:29 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3006 Date: 2004-08-26T02:42:29+00:00 List-Id: In article <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com>, dan.r.mcleran@seagate.com (Dan McLeran) wrote: > The GUI creation tool, GtkAda, was laughable as compared to something > like .Net or even some of the free Java GUI creation tools out there. > Also, the IDE was not nearly up to par as compared to MS .Net, > Eclipse, or Borland. I had a different experience. I used GtkAda (an object-oriented binding to the Gtk+ API) in conjunction with Glade 2 (a GUI design tool) on both Linux and Mac OS. It's not as polished as Xcode, but I was able to quickly create a complex series of related dialogs and integrate them with a colleague's geodetic display. I was also pleased with the cross-platform compatibility. GtkAda includes an Ada test program that re-creates the Gtk test code--inlcuding examples of the widgets, several composite objects and a GL demo. I wrote a simple animation program to play with some features: http://www.wright.edu/~john.matthews/gtk/lady.html If you elect to evaluate GtkAda, don't deny yourself a game of LinXtris:-) http://linxtris.sourceforge.net/ John ---- jmatthews at wright dot edu www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/