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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6511c3dc6e1155c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:23:48 -0500 From: David Botton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:23:49 -0400 Message-ID: <2004100409234916807%david@bottoncom> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton User-Agent: Unison/1.5.2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.176.74.83 X-Trace: sv3-4Jw9Glw6hnISe8k7m06eQBg4HcAZ0b+k9GJlbyOlFx4hV8QH/lC8JCYEYen81HH7w2JLWHT5feecwfi!Y5qzMuDIRJMd4BHyBz3EB7g46JCrsinNB8IMuILc+/XgwnmmyZf9Pe4PWeFo6A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.19 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4660 Date: 2004-10-04T09:23:49-04:00 List-Id: It is not the power but simplicity and the fact that the overloading mechanism is still there as well any time you want. It beautifly fulfills its goal, a GUI library intended to be as close as posible but not too close to the underlying API to simplify use. David Botton On 2004-10-03 22:06:07 -0400, Stephen Leake said: > > Sorry, I don't see the event mechanism in GWindows as very compelling. > It is nowhere near as powerful as the event mechanism in Gtk. It has > no marshalling of parameters, and only one handler per event. In fact, > I don't see how it is better than the inheritance overloading mechanism.