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=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8335f7ca87d8a578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Cygwin.dll and win32 stuff Date: 1997/03/23 Message-ID: <01bc37e5$82184b80$a6fa82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 227823639 References: <01bc33be$d9e1fbc0$3f2b18ce@elbier.ezl.com> Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Bierbaum wrote in article <01bc33be$d9e1fbc0$3f2b18ce@elbier.ezl.com>... > Does anyone know where I can find some documentation on the Cygnus Win32 > stuff that comes with GNAT 3.09? I must be looking in all the wrong places > 8^D > > Also, is there a sort of generic package for GUI's, so one could do similar > operations, like opening a window, from Windows, XWindows, or the Mac? I'm > a newby, and would appreciate any info you have on these questions. > For simple windowing operations, this may be possible, but for anything vaguely complex/serious/commercial, the problem is that there are too many fundamental differences between different windowing systems. There will always be some facilities in one which will have no kind equivalent at all in another. For example, there is a call in Windows to pop up a system modal dialog box, which is useful occasionally (trust me!). In X-Windows: no way! There is literally no way to do this in X-Windows. Point made I think. Nick