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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38d1fe109cd56c87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Vladimir Olensky" Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE Date: 1999/11/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 552278350 References: Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Date: 1999-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote in message ... >"Vladimir Olensky" writes: > >| Idea here is to use JAVASCRIPT within XML documents to create >| User Interface and exchange information between user form and Ada >| application. >| I think this approach is very good as along term strategy. > >One can do this easily with GtkAda :-) I don't agree that using >JAVAScript is a good strategy though. Yes I agree that anything could be done easily when you have needed tool (or set of different tools) at hand. And I have nothing against GtkAda :-). >From what I've read and seen I have very good impression. But more generally all depends on what one wants (level of GUI complexity) and type of an application. The best thing in such (XML with Java Script) approach that one does not need anything except browser. I think that this is the most serious argument. Another good argument is that such XML (or HTML) document which implements user GUI via Java Script should not be embedded into the application code. It may be stored separately and can be easily modified (localized). I know this not in words from others, but in reality, as I am using that when remotely control equipment that I support. I understand this as a some trend. No wonder that recently created Erlang comes with INETS module that can be used to provide such functionality. As I am telecommunications engineer and not a pure programmer I see many things from different angle compared with pure programmers (actually I know both sides). Regards, Vladimir Olensky.