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: 103376,470860aa3e635a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:41:12 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <13duou81kg3sd1c@corp.supernews.com> <13f3e0vbb05s47c@corp.supernews.com> <13f6eg0te46m2a3@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1190703663 30759 195.25.228.57 (25 Sep 2007 07:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:01:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2122 Date: 2007-09-25T08:41:12+02:00 List-Id: Steve a �crit : > It is "almost" what you get with GtkAda/Glade. Every time I have attempted > the combination it has ended in frustration. > > I am working in a Windows environment. > > Every time I have attempted to use Glade to set up a GUI it starts out > looking really impressive... better than some of the other GUI IDE's. > > But then I find that the tool that is supposed to allow me to make changes > to the GUI after the initial setup, doesn't work on Windows. Or I start > setting up windows, things start looking good, and then Glade crashes losing > all of my edits. True, there is one problem with Glade on Windows. Since Windows has no official "diff" command, the round-trip engineering feature does not work. It was easy for me, because I also have a Linux box on my desk. I develop the GUI on Linux, and run it on windows. I had zero compatibility problem... > I like Ada. I really do. But I would not recommend using Ada for a > developing a GUI to anyone. > I would go so far as to recommend creating a separate "front end" in C# on > .NET and a "back end" in Ada. But that raises the issue of justifying using > two separate programming languages for one applicaiton. Another option is Tcl/Tk. I have an application that uses it for its Gui, and I was quite happy with it. I didn't use the GUI builder (I know there is one), but it is relatively easy to design interfaces by hand. A benefit of this approach is that you can keep all your layout in a text file which is totally external to your application. If you are showing what you've done to a client, and the client asks you to move some button, you can do immediately it with a text editor, without recompiling the program. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr