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Subject: Re: GtkAda for GTk4?
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On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 23:35:48 UTC+1, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 13/02/2022 20:26, Andreas Almroth wrote:=20
> > On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 17:46:09 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:=
=20
> >> On 2022-02-13 16:32, Andreas Almroth wrote:=20
> >>=20
> >>> 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) refere=
nces to any initial thoughts/work on having GtkAda to also support GTK4.=20
> >> Well, knowing GTK's disastrous history it cannot be "also", it must be=
=20
> >> either 3 or 4. GTK 4 breaks basically everything one could ever think =
of.=20
> >>
> It's almost like wxAda would've been better...
> > Well, they might, but it is still based on C, which is easier to interf=
ace to from Ada, than say C++ (which I have found cumbersome). Most other G=
UI 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=20
> 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 th=
e adagorge.org re-design, and found QT that way...

/A