Re: Which GUI framework ?

[DrPi <314@drpi.fr>]

Le 29/10/2020 à 20:23, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> On 29/10/2020 19:48, DrPi wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to create a PC (Windows) GUI program. This program needs to 
>> be able to create many windows and tabs in one of them. A working 
>> thread receive data from a serial line and send messages to the GUI to 
>> print received content.
>>
>> I know the most common way is to use GtkAda. The problem is I'm a Ada 
>> beginner and I never used Gkt. So, the effort is double.
>>
>> I have a quite good knowledge of wxWidgets since I use wxPython for 
>> years. I thought I could use wxAda but is seems the project is dead.
>>
>> Any other binding to wxWidgets that I'm not aware of ?
> 
> If that is only Windows (are you serious?), 
Did I say that ?  ;)
I currently do my dev on a Windows machine but a cross-platform 
framework is welcome.

you do not need any. Simply
> use Windows GDI API directly. They are callable from Ada more or less 
> out of the box because Windows handles all objects internally as graphic 
> resources.
> 
> There is Win32Ada thin bindings, but it is incomplete and most of the 
> time you do not need it.
> 
> The Microsoft's way of defining and using types is so idiotic that no 
> reasonably usable thin Ada bindings are possible. I just declare an Ada 
> counterpart new as appropriate with parameters of types I want in order 
> to avoid casting types.
> 
> In short, Windows GDI is ugly but it is native and task-safe. (GtkAda is 
> neither)
> 
Windows GDI... I used it long time ago. Not my best memory.