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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-28 14:02:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <6b3bf5a20d777974aaa9f58b6f6792be.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1017352923 27216 129.241.83.82 (28 Mar 2002 22:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:02:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21793 Date: 2002-03-28T22:02:03+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:49:21 +0000 (UTC), Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > > No, you need to go sideways to that; xlib is X specific, and you are > wasting your time completely if you don't write something that ports > automatically to any windowing system. The Graphical Kernel System > would be nice, because under it there is surely code to call xlib > available somewhere; xlib becomes just another a device driver from the > GKS point of view. We are talking about a port to linux from a Windows spesific toolkit. -- Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�