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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,74d953d10520ed5e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-27 03:31:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.teledanmark.no!news.equant.no!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: using charles library Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1054031509 26388 129.241.83.78 (27 May 2003 10:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:31:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37828 Date: 2003-05-27T10:31:49+00:00 List-Id: Roman V. Isaev wrote: > I would not touch Gtk stuff with a ten-foot pole. Gtk on WinXX performance > is a joke and even Gtk on X11 performance is lousy (I always compile freeciv > with Xaw3D because of that despite of Xaw3D interface strangeness). Seeing > simple windows redraw themselves in times of common 1Ghz+ computers is Not > Right. Huh? I use Gtk on my old 166Mhz and I don't these problems, not even on faster computers (1GHz). But I think you are refering to the lack of double buffering in the Gtk 1.2. As I understand this is fixed in 2.2. However I have not experienced this. Please explain a bit more which programs you see this and what happens. Freeciv works nice with Gtk on both my old machine and the faster onces as far as I can see. But Gtk is not for action games if that is what you mean. At any rate you can have a look at how they did it with the gettext :-) > Anyway, this isn't the main reason. The main reason is to learn > some Ada, I have to start somewhere and I'll need translation code > anyway. Recently I dug out some old father's Pascal code that does > some scientific calculations. It needs user interface and cleanup. > Don't want to use Delphi. Many years ago I did an interface for it, > using Clarion 2.1 for DOS, but program wasn't released :) Now I > want to use AWS (I'm playing with it right now and it's amazing) so > the interface would be accessible via TCP/IP and the program would > be extremely portable (to run it on the openbsd server in demo > mode). Scientific code produces lengthy text output, right now > only cyrillic, and that output has to be translated somehow. I want > to use gettext .mo files because I like poEdit and I want to give > it to my father to translate most of his messages (I don't know a > damn in oil field science). Didn't try to run xgettext on ada Oh, interesting. What was the program used for? > sources yet tho... but I hope string extraction is not a big > problem. You could also consider making a binding to the gettext. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/