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: 103376,470860aa3e635a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!gail.ripco.com!newspeer.tds.net!216.168.1.163.MISMATCH!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "William J Thomas" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:00:23 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13f3e0vbb05s47c@corp.supernews.com> References: <13duou81kg3sd1c@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2044 Date: 2007-09-19T20:00:23-04:00 List-Id: Thank You, Unfortunately my worst fears have come true. No MS Visual Studio GUI building capability. Tell me is there some secret government agency out there preventing Ada from having a good, reliable GUI builder on MS Windows? I mean Windows is only some 90%+ of the market, so I can't believe that the Ada vendors for the last 25+ years have some how... (wait a minute, I know most of those vendors so I take that back). It's just that I've been waiting for over two decades for this dream to come true, but it never has! Please don't send me all sorts of suggestions on all of the wonderful "works well on Unix but crashes in 10 minutes on Windows Ada GUI products" out there. Actually I've had a few of them lure me in and let me do about a half hours worth of work just to dash all my hopes and gobel up all of my work, or let me save my work only to never let me back in with my saved files, or let me back in and display something not even closley resembling to what I last saved. I paid over $4K in the 1980's for an Alsys 286 Compiler (but hey I did get 4M of memory with it) , I would gladly pay $8K or $16K today for an Ada compiler and GUI builder compariable to the quality of a C# compiler and Visual Studio. I guess I'll just have to keep dreaming and keep coding (in Ada of course, how else could I afford an $8K compiler). Bill