Re: Improving the first contact with Ada

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:47:52 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> On 6/14/2010 1:03 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
>> I prefer command-line
>> tools over GUI tools, so when I write a utility for my own use, I
>> never give it a GUI.
> 
> May be this is getting off-topic a little...But I think there is a place 
> for both?

No, all people are genetically separated into Emacs users and others. (:-))

> Ada lack of good GUI integration is a problem.

Yes. No binding to crappy C-library X will solve this.

> The other night I played 
> with GTKada. Wanted to learn how to make GUI with Ada. Downloaded 
> examples from libre web site,
> 
> http://www.adapower.com/launch.php?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flibre.act-europe.fr%2FGtkAda%2F
> 
> read the documents, and build them OK on windows. I found all the 
> examples to be trivial, a single button that come up and such.
> 
> Other GTKAda small programs that I found on the net (so few out there), 
> either do not build OK, or if they do, they crashed when ran.

Well, that depends on the compiler/GtkAda you use. Unless you are using
GNAT GPL 2009, presently, you will have troubles.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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