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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda vs Windex, Gwindows References: From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:11:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87u0tap4rk.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yFIo39OYVCncB5S/an/DdHCAEFE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Oct 2004 23:15:30 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.238.139 X-Trace: 1096924530 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 44103 83.134.238.139:37778 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4678 Date: 2004-10-04T23:15:30+02:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > While some of this is unavoidable as the project matures (like some > of the support moving to this Pango package), I found it rather > confusing. What is really needed is a comprehensive user guide, with > full blown examples (not the few that come with the sources). > > One area that I found weak in the extreme was how to use GtkAda to > draw on some sort of a graphics area. Many questions came to mind > about that (and I have done X Window graphics), but I had to do a > lot of experimentation and spec grepping to get through that. Do you count testgtk in the "few examples"? If memory serves, it does have graphics examples using GtkCanvas and XPMs. On Debian: $ mkdir ~/src $ tar xvzf /usr/share/doc/libgtkada2-doc/examples/testgtk.tar.gz $ cd testktk $ cat README $ make -f testgtk.mak -- Ludovic Brenta.