From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: GtkAda for GTk4?
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:35:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <suc141$1n5b$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e050deeb-be5a-4a08-86c5-02b9ea962000n@googlegroups.com
On 13/02/2022 20:26, Andreas Almroth wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 17:46:09 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2022-02-13 16:32, Andreas Almroth wrote:
>>
>>> Looking at the excellent support for GTK in GtkAda over the past many years, which I have enjoyed using, I was looking for (aka googling) references to any initial thoughts/work on having GtkAda to also support GTK4.
>> Well, knowing GTK's disastrous history it cannot be "also", it must be
>> either 3 or 4. GTK 4 breaks basically everything one could ever think of.
>>
It's almost like wxAda would've been better...
> Well, they might, but it is still based on C, which is easier to interface to from Ada, than say C++ (which I have found cumbersome). Most other GUI frameworks are based on C++, for instance QT. QTAda is as far as I know not maintained (I haven't seen much in a very long time).
Can confirm, binding C++ is too easy to burn out on, having done so on
wxAda.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-13 15:32 GtkAda for GTk4? Andreas Almroth
2022-02-13 16:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-02-13 20:26 ` Andreas Almroth
2022-02-13 20:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-02-14 7:46 ` Emmanuel Briot
2022-02-14 8:47 ` Andreas Almroth
2022-02-14 19:50 ` Fernando Oleo Blanco
2022-02-13 22:35 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2022-02-14 8:45 ` Andreas Almroth
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