Re: using charles library

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Roman V. Isaev wrote:
>    Just start GVD on WinXX and go to preferences. Every tab is so 
> jerky, they redraw themselves several times and it's quite visible. 
> Most funny are Source and Data tabs, when you click them widgets 
> run around like cockroaches before settling on their places. May be 
> it's fixed in 2.2 but all I see is only 1.3 for win available for 
> download. I'm not that brave to venture into compiling 2.0 on windoze 
> and I see no 2.2 at all there at http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/ :)
>    Sluggish Gtk behaviour makes applications look sloppy and low-quality.

OK I think then perhaps it is an issue with the windows port of Gtk,
because I don't see this in any of the following programs: gvd, gimp,
galeon, gtop, gedit, glimmer, civclient-gtk, gnumeric, abiword, rox,
gvim, glosa etc... on Linux. All use GTK+.

>    They didn't. If you want to use gettext you have to haul 
> its dll on winXX and use -lintl on unix. They simply made binding 
> for C gettext library (and no ada parser so far). 

That's why I said you could look at making a binding.

>    I wrote tiny library that loads .mo files and translates text 
> using table from that file as I played with Ada:

Nice, but your Strings are they expecting UTF-8?

> If anyone interested I can publish it (although code is crappy 
> by any standard and doesn't handle errors well, it's my first 
> experience with ada dammit). I don't like its dependency on charles 
> library, gettext package should come alone (unless ada gets 
> something like perl CPAN interface and autodownload of dependent 
> libraries) or depend only on standard library (not GNAT 
> specific). .mo files alredy come with precomputed hash, but 
> I don't know Ada well enough to make this package work with 
> hash yet :)

Why not depend on charles? We need sooner or later to *pick* one
container library so I don't she why charles should be it. When I have
time I plan to look at it in order to use it in my applications.

>    Calculating oil well characteristics given certain pump, pipes,
> fluid type and other 70+ parameters... but I'm afraid it might 
> be faster to take all math and write anew than wade through 
> fortran-like code, and I won't have enough spare time for either 
> endeavour.

But the calculations are still applicable?

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/