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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: OT: GUI
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:

> > What is your definition of native? Is Ada native on anything or
> > should one use assembly?
> 
> Native as in not having to go through a large binding to access the
> underlying opertion. Claw is "native" as it sits (almost) directly
> on top of the Windows calls. But GtkAda on Windows isn't native as
> it doesn't use the underlying OS GUI routines (or at least not in
> any way that could be described as close).

Since GtkAda is made to be a general, high-level graphics system
independent API for GUI programming, I would be very surprised if it
was native (according to your definition) to any graphics system.

A related note: Hardly any Unix programs are written using a native
(according to your definition) GUI API.  Most Unix'es use X as their
graphics system.  And most programs for X are written using a thick
binding to the X protocol.

Jacob
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