GUI with Ada?
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From: Jerry on 18 Dec 2009 17:12 I believe that there is a binding to TCL/TK, TASH. This might be appropriate, as I understand it, for somewhat less ambitious projects with a quicker path to actual results. Jerry
From: Ludovic Brenta on 19 Dec 2009 05:01 Nasser M. Abbasi wrote on comp.lang.ada: > Hello; > > I have not kept up with Ada for sometime. I was wondering, if someone wants > to develop a simple GUI (plots, menus, buttons, graphs, etc..) using Ada, > and have the code compile to a .exe on windows and linux, which is the > current most popular software pieces needed for the GUI? > > Assuming I will be using GNAT. Which gcc version should I be using these > days which has the latest Ada support in it? Should I be using gcc directly > for Ada programming these days, or use GNAT GPL 2009 version from Libre web > sitehttp://libre.adacore.com/libre/? > > I know there are few choices for the GUI, and just wanted to check what is > the "best" choice do you think for that. One with a GUI builder would be > nice (i.e. where one can pick the components and lay them out to design the > interface). This will be an school program, nothing commercial. I wanted to > try to write some basic finite element code in Ada, but need a GUI part for > the simulation part. Shameless_Plug: begin Besides the respective merits of GTK+, Qt and their Ada bindings, you may find that ease of installation and deployment are also of importance. By that metric, I suggest you take a look at Debian GNU/ Linux 5.0 "Lenny", the stable distribution. It ships GCC 4.3 and GtkAda 2.8.1 as packages, i.e. precompiled and preconfigured for immediate use, along with a host of other Ada libraries. Beware though: you may get spoiled with the ease of use and never want to go back to Windows :) The installation is as easy as: aptitude install libgtkada2-dev which will also pull the correct version of GCC and any other packages necessary. If you feel adventurous, you may want to try the testing distribution; it has GtkAda 2.12.0. I am planning to upload GtkAda 2.14.2 to unstable in the next couple of weeks; it should reach testing by the end of January. end Shameless_Plug; -- Ludovic Brenta.
From: Leonid Dulman on 19 Dec 2009 05:36 On Dec 18, 10:44 pm, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...(a)12000.org> wrote: > Hello; > > I have not kept up with Ada for sometime. I was wondering, if someone wants > to develop a simple GUI (plots, menus, buttons, graphs, etc..) using Ada, > and have the code compile to a .exe on windows and linux, which is the > current most popular software pieces needed for the GUI? > > Assuming I will be using GNAT. Which gcc version should I be using these > days which has the latest Ada support in it? Should I be using gcc directly > for Ada programming these days, or use GNAT GPL 2009 version from Libre web > sitehttp://libre.adacore.com/libre/? > > I know there are few choices for the GUI, and just wanted to check what is > the "best" choice do you think for that. One with a GUI builder would be > nice (i.e. where one can pick the components and lay them out to design the > interface). This will be an school program, nothing commercial. I wanted to > try to write some basic finite element code in Ada, but need a GUI part for > the simulation part. > > Thanks, > --Nasser You can try Visual Ada Developer VAD 7.3 http://users1.jabry.com/adastudio/index.html Leonid (leonid_dulman(a)yahoo.co.uk)
From: Dmitry A. Kazakov on 19 Dec 2009 05:57 On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:01:13 -0800 (PST), Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Nasser M. Abbasi wrote on comp.lang.ada: >> >> I have not kept up with Ada for sometime. I was wondering, if someone wants >> to develop a simple GUI (plots, menus, buttons, graphs, etc..) using Ada, >> and have the code compile to a .exe on windows and linux, which is the >> current most popular software pieces needed for the GUI? >> >> Assuming I will be using GNAT. Which gcc version should I be using these >> days which has the latest Ada support in it? Should I be using gcc directly >> for Ada programming these days, or use GNAT GPL 2009 version from Libre web >> sitehttp://libre.adacore.com/libre/? >> >> I know there are few choices for the GUI, and just wanted to check what is >> the "best" choice do you think for that. �One with a GUI builder would be >> nice (i.e. where one can pick the components and lay them out to design the >> interface). This will be an school program, nothing commercial. I wanted to >> try to write some basic finite element code in Ada, but need a GUI part for >> the simulation part. > > Shameless_Plug: begin Not at all, you are doing a very important job. It takes too much time to download components from different sources, to combine them and to make them working. When you just want to try a new library out, you are lost. BTW, the blame is all on non-Ada stuff. There was never any problem to incorporate an Ada library, because Ada has that excellent concept of compilation units. The problems begin when Ada is mere bindings to some other language mess with its dreadful makefiles and the horrific configure tool... > Besides the respective merits of GTK+, Qt and their Ada bindings, you > may find that ease of installation and deployment are also of > importance. By that metric, I suggest you take a look at Debian GNU/ > Linux 5.0 "Lenny", the stable distribution. It ships GCC 4.3 and > GtkAda 2.8.1 as packages, i.e. precompiled and preconfigured for > immediate use, along with a host of other Ada libraries. Beware > though: you may get spoiled with the ease of use and never want to go > back to Windows :) Well, strange it might hear, but Windows API have their merits. One example specifically important to Ada, there is no any problem to send and receive Windows message from concurrent Ada tasks. > The installation is as easy as: > > aptitude install libgtkada2-dev > > which will also pull the correct version of GCC and any other packages > necessary. > > If you feel adventurous, you may want to try the testing distribution; > it has GtkAda 2.12.0. I am planning to upload GtkAda 2.14.2 to > unstable in the next couple of weeks; it should reach testing by the > end of January. Some information maybe interesting for you. I am using gtk 2.14.7 under Fedora Core 10, I am planing to jump over to the core 12 (since the core 11 is broken). So far there is no problems, except for sporadic Storage_Error (caused by SIGSEGV). I am investigating the issue. Have you seen something alike? Under Windows I go with gtk 2.14.5, which works perfectly well. In both cases I didn't change anything in the GtkAda 2.14 itself, just recompiled it. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
From: sjw on 19 Dec 2009 07:58 On Dec 18, 10:12 pm, Jerry <lancebo...(a)qwest.net> wrote: > I believe that there is a binding to TCL/TK, TASH. This might be > appropriate, as I understand it, for somewhat less ambitious projects > with a quicker path to actual results. This is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcladashell/ . There is a GUI developer RAPID at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rapid/ . The TASH web pages are at present lost in a Sourceforge wiki shuffle, but in any case they never included explicit setup instructions (a fact which I've registered as a high-priority bug). If you have any interest in pursuing the TASH option, mail me and I'll fix it sooner!
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