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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63585ba5c5be8595 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: james hopper Subject: Re: Ada to XRT bindings Date: 2000/04/15 Message-ID: <150420001829505814%nospam@nospam.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611686642 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <38E8E8CE.81EC851F@mitre.org> <38EB5093.9B41ED88@mitre.org> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/5.0.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Motorolas Common Ground System uses XRT and about 250k SLOCs of it are in ada. i just ported it all to gnat and the ada95 x bindings. they had done a binding to xrt themselves which i modified a bit. it was very straight forward. if i had done it from scratch it would not have been a big deal at least the stuff that we used. its hard to be precise here, but no its not that big a deal. best jim In article <38EB5093.9B41ED88@mitre.org>, John Standard wrote: > Looking into the project further, it turns out that we can probably > get Ada to Motif bindings. However, we are planning on using an add-on > widget set by the KLGroup called XRT. It provides some unconventional > widgets that are needed for the user interface. This API is written in > C, so Ada bindings will need to be created to interface with this > library. I'm told the call through to the XRT API shouldn't be that > difficult to write, but setting and catching the callbacks could be more > difficult. Has any one had any experience with this type of > programming?