Re: GUI development: Windex vs. GTK vs. Anything else

["Jesse Farmer" <tujuggernaut@gmx.net>]

Probably not.  One of the reasons we chose to use ada for this program is
that we needed as near to real time as we could get for some parts of the
program.  The ada real time library provides at least close to the timing
accuracy and precision that we wanted, and exists across platforms (although
I admit, we haven't tested it on any other platforms yet).

Speed and stability were the main reason that Java wasn't used.  Since
AFAIK, Java needs a runtime enviroment on all but java-specific platforms,
its speed is signifigantly reduced, and memory requirements are increased.
I may be overestimating the degregation in performance caused by the JRE,
but never the less, Ada was our first choice, C++ our second.

Because of this, I'd really like to avoid using Java (especially considering
I don't know it.. but I didn't know Ada either).  However, I've never used
Jgnat or a java applet as a gui interface before.  But I get the feeling
that Java seems to be more for quick development, rather than good, solid
performance.  Perhaps I'm wrong on this.

In any case, I plan on investigating several of the options mentioned, to
see which seems the most viable.  Thanks.
-Jesse Farmer


<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
news:E%v46.77002$A06.2601489@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com...
> >Also needed is a graphical mixing counsole, which attempts to look like a
> >simplified real mixer, meaning vertical sliders, and knobs, which I want
so
>   Some years ago I captured some video shots, then displayed those with
> appropriate code to follow the mouse & move things.  That was for a video
> editor in MSDOS and, IMHO, looked pretty good.  Would a "GUI by Netscape"
> with Java applet portable interface, talking to a (nearly) system
> independent back end, be a reasonable approach?