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,a875d9649dde34e3 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!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc08.POSTED!da33a4ab!not-for-mail From: Fionn mac Cuimhaill Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:01:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.41.197.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trnddc08 1096682485 4.41.197.98 (Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:01:25 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:01:25 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4542 Date: 2004-10-02T02:01:25+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:39:44 +0100, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > >>>>>Database support is essential. If Claw is weaker than GWindows on >>>>>database support, that is a major strike against it.... >>> >>>Duh? Was the project not a GUI library? What that has to do with database? >>> >>>(Could not find the original post by Fionn apud Stephen) >> >> It was never just a GUI library problem - GWindows supplies both a GUI >> library and a databae library, and I need and use both. > >I also need both food and soap, but I don't keep them together :-) > I presume that you keep them in the same house. :-) >So it seems what you want is a set of facilities for development of a >certain class of applications. Not pressing at all but I'd love to see a >description of it. > >Otherwise it's like the Common Ada Library idea again. > >What I liked in the forming GWindows/Claw project was that it seemed to >be about one well defined and manageable area, GUI. Oh well... A perfectly reasonable intersection of GUI and database exists in the form of database-bound controls, which GWindows has. David Gressett AKA Fionn mac Cuimhaill res1nntf.potato@lettuce.verizon.net (remove vegetables to get correct address)