Re: gtkada/glade info needed

[randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:43:49 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote:
>Does anybody know where there might exist some documentation about using
>Glade to build GUIs for use with GtkAda? I'm looking for a sort of
>tutorial that walks you through all the steps of constructing some sort
>of reasonably simple app that shows how to use the various features to
>create a nice looking window. Despite claims to the contrary, the tool
>is *not* intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer.

First principle is that when you make GUI with GtkAda (GTK+) you should
not do it the way Delphi projects do. That is put buttons etc in fixed
positions. GTK+ uses horisontal and vertical boxes to pack buttons
etc... so that when you scale your application the layout looks good.

I recommend that you look at these links, even though the examples are
in C it is easy to translate into Ada 95 using GtkAda:

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington :

on packing widgets:

   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/cha-gtk.html

the whole book can be found here:

   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/

GTK+ Tutorial by Tony Gale, Ian Main

on packing widgets:

   http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-4.html

the whole tutorial

   http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/

And of course the GtkAda documentation.

   http://gtkada.eu.org/gtkada_ug.html
   http://gtkada.eu.org/gtkada_rm_toc.html

>Is it time to once again observe that one reason more people don't
>develop Windows apps in Ada is because there isn't a complete,
>well-integrated, well-documented set of tools with which to work? C++

I dunno, I use Linux as I find that Windows suck.

>may be a poor excuse for a programming language, but MSVC++ installs
>from a single disk, configures everything it needs to and runs properly
>right out of the box. No net surfing for all the bits and pieces. No

And how many $ do you have to pay up for the public version of  GNAT +
GtkAda + Glade compared to MSVC++? :-)

>I like the notion of being able to develop a GUI based app in Ada using
>a tool that will let me take the code between Windows and Unix
>unchanged. GtkAda may do that. It may gain more popularity if it works a
>bit more seamlessly.

The Linux version works nicely at least and I'm very impressed with the
work put in by the GtkAda developers.

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