Re: GWindows and a future home for it

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.141.1096581654.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> Unfortunately, that's not available. You'll have to go look at the
> Claw sources, and see for yourself. I just did a grep in the free Claw
> for "database", and came up empty. Randy - any support in the full
> Claw?
>
> I agree database access is important. Currently, I'm using GNADE and
> GtkAda for a database application. So some of us will have to change,
> whichever standard we agree on.

We didn't do any database support, mainly because no one working on Claw has
much experience in that area. We decided to concentrate on the GUI, and do
the database stuff when we got around to it (and everyone knows how that
works).

The most recent list of types is found at:
http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/claw/clawcl13.html
That list seems to omit the Rich Text edit control and the ListView family
of controls. (I'll have to update it ASAP.) ListView includes a generic unit
to create a table from a type and a set of accessor routines. It's a bit
messy to set up, but then it does all of the hard work.

Someone mentioned printing. The basic capability is the printer canvas,
which supports the basic start and end document and page operations, and
operations for setting up a cancel button. We had planned to build a
document architecture on top of that, but never had much demand. And the
Rich Edit control has built-in support for rendering pages, complete with
margins. (And it's easy to add headers and footers to the output.) That's so
trivial to use, I've never found a need to use anything more complex (just
create a hidden rich edit control, load it with your formatted document, and
use Print_Range in the loop to print it).

                                 Randy.