Re: GtkAda for GTk4?

[Andreas Almroth <andreas@almroth.com>]

On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 23:35:48 UTC+1, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 13/02/2022 20:26, Andreas Almroth wrote: 
> > On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 17:46:09 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: 
> >> On 2022-02-13 16:32, Andreas Almroth wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> Looking at the excellent support for GTK in GtkAda over the past many years, which I have enjoyed using, I was looking for (aka googling) references to any initial thoughts/work on having GtkAda to also support GTK4. 
> >> Well, knowing GTK's disastrous history it cannot be "also", it must be 
> >> either 3 or 4. GTK 4 breaks basically everything one could ever think of. 
> >>
> It's almost like wxAda would've been better...
> > Well, they might, but it is still based on C, which is easier to interface to from Ada, than say C++ (which I have found cumbersome). Most other GUI frameworks are based on C++, for instance QT. QTAda is as far as I know not maintained (I haven't seen much in a very long time).
> Can confirm, binding C++ is too easy to burn out on, having done so on 
> wxAda.

First, I have to correct myself... Seems Leonid Dulman provides QT5 and QT6 support as part of Ada Studio (google qt6ada). Just saw another post on the adagorge.org re-design, and found QT that way...

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