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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6511c3dc6e1155c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton Date: 03 Oct 2004 22:06:07 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <200410031232568930%david@bottoncom> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1096855578 41409 212.85.156.195 (4 Oct 2004 02:06:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:06:18 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <200410031232568930%david@bottoncom> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4636 Date: 2004-10-03T22:06:07-04:00 David Botton writes: > I have a comparison between GWindows and CLAW at: > > http://www.adapower.com/gwindows/GWindowsVsClaw.html Looks good. I was not aware of the issue around ActiveX controls (I've never used one). > Stephen, I would suggest looking at the event models in GWindows in > particular to see the major reason (in addition to doing what was > needed to allow for COM/.Net/ActiveX controls which may be the chief > reason in the end) why I didn't build off of Windex which is very > tightly bound to the Windows way of doing things. Sorry, I don't see the event mechanism in GWindows as very compelling. It is nowhere near as powerful as the event mechanism in Gtk. It has no marshalling of parameters, and only one handler per event. In fact, I don't see how it is better than the inheritance overloading mechanism. > Windex while in general a smaller library than GWindows does have > some areas that it is better fleshed out in. Thanks. -- -- Stephe