From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda for GTk4? Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:35:44 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1e07b1bf-d60c-41e4-92f1-0f652b48f8d3n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="56491"; posting-host="Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-GB Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63508 List-Id: 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.