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From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed
Date: 2000/10/01
Date: 2000-10-01T18:26:52+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8tf0em.142.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39D76103.1D3E5503@acm.org

On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:06:27 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote:
>Thanks for the links. I'll look them over. However, my problem isn't so much
>GTK as it is the GUI builder and getting the code generation to work.

Well read the links and I think you'll understand things more clearly.
Once you understand GTK+, Glade is easy to use.

>But of course, a fundamental point of philosophy would be that just
>because Windows = Sucks, does not imply that (not Windows) = Cool.

No and I haven't said that either. Linux is good on it's own meirts.

>Hey, I understand the price is right. That certainly is an attraction.
>But if you go to a restaurant and the waitress comes by and says "They
>burnt your french fries so they gave you more of them and there's no
>charge" do you still eat the fries? I like freebies, but if it doesn't
>work, it doesn't do me much good. It also discourages usage of Ada in
>general if a newbie is confronted with too many problems getting tools
>to work.

If you want to make the food yourself expect having to do the dishes
afterwards, if you go to a resturant expect to pay for not having to.
:-)

>I'll agree that they put a lot of work into it and they have some very
>nice things there. Maybe its just not stabilized enough on the Windows
>side.

Well as GTK+ isn't a Windows project you should perhaps look on the Unix
side? :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-30  0:00 gtkada/glade info needed Marin David Condic
2000-09-30  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-30  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-01  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-01  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-01  0:00     ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2000-10-02  3:45     ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-02  0:00       ` Gautier
2000-10-02  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-02  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-02  0:00         ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-02  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-01  3:07 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-01  3:36 ` DuckE
2000-10-01  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-01  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-01  0:00       ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-06  0:00         ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-07  4:10           ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-07  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
2000-10-09  0:00               ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-09  0:00                 ` Jerry van Dijk
2000-10-10  6:52                 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-10-10  0:00                   ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-10  0:00                     ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-10  0:00                       ` Leonard
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