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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ed4c57426e16006 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda using Glade Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 02:54:27 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <15ff2ec1-5a2b-4d24-8aab-cf7985b6374f@t19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <2e496d2c-f12f-4961-981b-2162fdf1ce1e@k3g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <1vakqa4gwjxry$.9j72428ewqp0.dlg@40tude.net> <1npn5zwqehpsz.1lqame09nycx1.dlg@40tude.net> <96992149-4b0b-4de3-b928-545baa8da5ad@y12g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: z1Vr7EuVE/z2MWC09REwVA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20300 Date: 2011-05-20T02:54:27+02:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 19 May 2011 12:02:55 +0200, J-P. Rosen a =C3=A9= crit: > I think you should really give Glade a try (I think you said you > didn't). Creating the various widgets (with appropriate parameters!), > stuffing them into containers, connecting call-backs constitute a real= ly > boring (and error-prone) part of the development. That's what Glade do= es > for you. Your are mostly right, but I believe to be more correct, we should say a= n = UI is better expressed using a declarative language, and not a procedura= l = language. Glade (which I only know for the creation of Python UI, not = tested with GtkAda), indeed offers this declarative approach... anything= = else offering a declarative approach instead of the Ada's traditional = procedural approach, would be as much good. -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9C c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */ =E2=80= =9D [Anonymous]