From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,34191e2c05ab90f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.banetele.no!news.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada & gui Date: 29 Jul 2005 16:59:05 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Sender: sparre@hugin.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <42ea121b$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1122649116 28855 80.241.165.40 (29 Jul 2005 14:58:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:58:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3851 Date: 2005-07-29T16:59:05+02:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > This seems like a fairly common problem - GtkAda does have a certain > 'look' on windows that isn't as clean as Claw but Claw is > Windows-only. I have heard rumours that there are themes for GtkAda which makes it look more like ordinary Microsoft applications. > I have toyed with creating an abstract 'GUI' library (see below) so > you could choose between GUI-implementations at compile time. That would definitely be nice. But wasn't that the idea with GtkAda? (or at least with Gtk+?) > Any thoughts pros/cons to this sort of framework? A framework which can make both platform-specific and cross-platform look-and-feel GUIs is definitely on my wishlist. I have considered porting Claw (as a framework) to some X GUI APIs (with GtkAda at the top of the list). Jacob -- "Very small. Go to sleep" -- monster (not drooling)