On 03/23/2012 10:23 AM, Patrick wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Please forgive this strange post, I am not a professional programmer but > I am trying something a bit difficult. > > I like Lua but I have fallen in love with Ada now. Looking at Ada Lovelace's wikipedia page, she is portrayed as a fairly attractive woman, so I don't blame you. :) > Lua's library support > is not great but the language really shines when used with C libraries. > I would like to use Ada in a similar way and ignore all the Ada > libraries, including the GTK binding. > > I am presently trying to compile a mixed c ada application. The program > calls C GTK in a non main c function. The main function is on the Ada side. > > Is this permissible? Does GTK depend on a C entry point? So far as I know, gtk wants to be initialized with gtk_init(). Then you have to start up the GTK main loop with gtk_main(). You can do this from anywhere, not just main. Unfortunately, calling gtk_main does not return until a call to gtk_quit(). So you could say that gtk_main is the C entry point. If you are okay with GTK being in control, and calling back into your ada functions, then it should work fine. And really in event-driven programming, you react to events anyway. You don't program procedurally. If you have an Ada loop you have to run, either to poll something or to do a long-running calculation or process, you could do it in another thread I, and call g_idle_add to do things in the main GTK GUI thread. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
