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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,68f87cd0ecb20054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:38:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:34:20 -0400 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat 2006 and windows vista References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1239d4-87r.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-vz5LkkNYkEDYUJf+pivEVqkCCgdradia+Yqer4ldxIcv2w3lFWFdk1quHDJbHusVHeUCQrbNW16SaU5!E9i1d2qL/5V+VrqNGuiIelinGwZm4Y3tRxVpzPvgLxQ89jI1H2KzClBESaJ/zDkNukN8QYrGYpYH!/bpwlUnCU0JAUzRNxhBVdw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14588 Date: 2007-03-21T21:34:20-04:00 List-Id: Randy wrote: > > "Jeffrey Creem" wrote in message > news:e6p8d4-56o.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com... >> Randy wrote: >>> I seem to be having some trouble using adacore's ada 2006 on my vista >>> system, in short it locks up anytime I do anything other than type in >>> a program. I was wondering if anyone had this problem or if it was >>> being worked on or what. Sorry I am new to all this (ada and vista) >>> so I have no idea what I should do. At least a what newsgroup I >>> should post in if this is not the correct one would be nice. >>> Thanks >>> Randy >> >> Can you be more specific? I am guessing from this that you are >> indicating that the GPS IDE is locking up? Or are you saying that the >> compiler locks up? >> >> I've seen some discussion that the Gtk+ "WIMP" theme has had problems >> with Vista and I think that GtkAda includes the WIMP theme by default. >> >> If it is just GPS, perhaps you can keep using the compiler and use >> something else as the IDE (ether AdaGide or the Aonix Eclipse plugin) > > Thanks, i think its the IDE, i have not been able to run even a simple > program yet. it seems that any disk ops makes the IDE hang. At this > point the adacore 2006 is all i know about perhaps someone knows of some > others i can check out. I am a bit poor right now and this is just a > hobby for the moment so free or very cheap is good for me:) > Randy Ok. Try AdaGide http://adagide.martincarlisle.com/ It is a fairly simple Ada aware editor and will use the Adacore GNAT 2006 compiler as its compiler backend. Since I don't have vista I can't confirm that what you are seeing is really a Vista/AdaCore IDE interaction. The IDE is built on a widget set called Gtk and that widget set is setup by default (I believe) to use a theme that has been known to have problems with Vista. So, until some others start trying to use the GPS IDE that is part of the AdaCore GNAT GPL Edition under Vista you might want to try the other IDE (which will still need the compiler you probably installed when you installed the Adacore tools). If you are already Eclipse literate, then the Aonix plugin is the other option. Again it can use the same compiler you have already downloaded. It is a commercial product but the eval version you can download for free is certainly complete enough for just getting started. If you are not already Eclipse literate, then just try AdaGide.