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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.5toSSCP5H8WhQPVIfFrwuA.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Where to find Ada GTK example programs to try? Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 23:39:37 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 5toSSCP5H8WhQPVIfFrwuA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58634 Date: 2020-05-08T23:39:37+02:00 List-Id: On 2020-05-08 22:02, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 5/8/2020 1:19 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2020-05-08 00:21, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >> > Yes, I forgot about GPS. I remember reading it used GTK. > > But I also remember reading the other day that you said about GPS using > using Python somehow, right? It does not use Python for GUI, only for scripting. > I have GPS. It is nice. But GTK Ada has been around for long time. > > Someone must have written some animations or simulation or game > GUI using Ada-GTK, GTK is a widget library, it is not purposed for a game engine, like Unreal. > That is what I meant. May be you did yourself also, since I know > you are an expert in Ada GTK also. This one is in GtkAda: http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/max_home_automation.htm > For example, can one use Ada GTK to make GUI apps like these? > > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/game.fc1 GTK supports SVG, you can render some 3D stuff, but it is not for that. > May be the folks who use Ada all the time prefer to do > serious real-time embedded system program for air traffic > control systems and have no time for making silly GUI apps > in Ada :) I would not classify computer games as GUI. And I would not start doing this from scratch in a GTK's drawable area! I did some 3D scene simulation in OpenGL about a quarter of century ago. That was no fun. Today you will need more than a human life span in order to catch up with modern 3D engines. Go for a ready to use stuff. Write Ada bindings if there is no any. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de