Re: GWindows and David Botton

[David Botton <david@botton.com>]

Gtk may partialy look like windows, but it hardly will ever feel like 
windows now or in the future (do note that using GWindows you could 
actually lift GtkAda up to feel like windows, really look like windows 
and even offer ActiveX and .NET support to boot). I believe there is 
some sample code in GWindows for placing an ActiveX control on a GtkAda 
window. That technique and better ones exist for GtkAda integration 
with GWindows.

A Rapid like approach that uses GtkAda for Linux and GWindows for 
Windows on its backend would be the better approach to acheive your 
goals. GtkAda could in theory become the Rapid like approach itself as 
well if it could shift a bit away from Gtk on Windows.

David Botton




On 2004-09-24 14:58:15 -0400, Pascal Obry <obry@act-europe.fr> said:

> 
> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
> 
>> I'm considering giving up on GtkAda for Windows development, and
> 
> Well that's not the moment to give up :) Gtk+ on Windows is maturing quickly
> and the 2.4.7 version is quite better than previous ones. Note also that the
> Gtk+Wimp (Native Windows look&feel) is now part of the Gtk+ project.
> 
> Will this makes you stay on the GtkAda side ?
> 
> What I like in Ada is that the very same program can be compiled and run on
> different OS. So GtkAda seems very important to me!
> 
> Pascal.