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On 20-Jul-14 17:18, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> Imagine an Ada GUI framework that is Ada's superior competitor to C++'s wxWidgets.

I have; I'd kinda liked to have done something w/ my OpenGL binding -- 
but I ran out of steam/motivation for that project.

> Other than Gnavi & wxWidgets, none of the other GUI frameworks (e.g., Qt) call the
> OS's native widgets, but rather paint visually-similar emulations thereof.

You're quite right -- it gets annoying when "native" [looking] buttons 
have to repaint themselves and have a vast lag compared to true-native 
buttons. (The best native OS GUI-framework I've used, IMO, is Delphi's VCL.)