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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
> Yes, I forgot about GPS. I remember reading it used GTK.
>
> But I also remember reading the other day that you said about GPS using
> using Python somehow, right?

Yes. GPS uses both GtkAda (for the GUI) and Python (for scripting).

> I have GPS. It is nice. But GTK Ada has been around for long time.

So has GPS.

> Someone must have written some animations or simulation or game
> GUI using Ada-GTK,

Ah, GTK (and GtkAda) is not intended for this.  You can write games
using GtkAda but you'd be better off using SDL.  There is an Ada binding
at https://github.com/Lucretia/sdlada.  While GTK does only graphical
widgets, SDL does accelerated graphics, sound, joystick, etc.

The kind of games that you could make with GTK are desktop games like
the gnome games collection e.g. othello, card cames, chess, etc; not the
ones you refer to.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.
The gatekeeper overdelivers our project, while the steering committee focuses on a non-mainstream EBITDA.