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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc3cd65b8421a1e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed Date: 2000/10/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 676262754 References: <39D65E94.DD8563E@acm.org> <39D76103.1D3E5503@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 970424812 29180 129.241.83.82 (1 Oct 2000 18:26:52 GMT) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Oct 2000 18:26:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-01T18:26:52+00:00 List-Id: 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? :-) -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D Student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ ._. Debian 2.2 |"Don't think about domination, think about freedom, / _,\ Potato | it doesn't dominate." - Richard M. Stallman | (_./ GNU/Linux | To learn more visit => http://www.debian.org/ \,