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,FREEMAIL_FROM, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aca1259beaaf752f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-03 14:56:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Jesse Farmer" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI development: Windex vs. GTK vs. Anything else Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:54:23 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3631 Date: 2001-01-03T17:54:23-05:00 List-Id: 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 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?