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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e126b63e73a8033,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-23 16:47:47 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!tannend From: tannend@source.asset.com (David M. Tannen) Subject: GUI tools for MS-DOS Message-ID: <1993Mar23.225819.13163@source.asset.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 22:58:19 GMT Organization: Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology Followup-To: tannend@source.asset.com Date: 1993-03-23T22:58:19+00:00 List-Id: In article gibbons@speedy.cci.de (Andrew Gibbons) writes: > > I am posting this request for a colleague. He is working with Ada on >an IBM PC compatible. He would like to know of any toolsets available for >creating graphical user interfaces to be incorporated into Ada programs. He >is working with the Meridian Ada compiler, though he also has access to the >Alsys and Janus compilers. > Any responses may be mailed directly to my colleague at wussow@cci.de or >if people prefer to post their responses, I will gather them together for >him. > Thanks in advance. > Andy. Here are some possiblities: Micro-GKS/Ada Software Technology Inc 1511 Park Avenue Melbourne, Fl 32901 Halo Media Cybernetics, Inc 8484 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 Screen Machine Objective Interface Systems 1895 Preston White Drive Suite 250 Reston, Virginia 22091-5448 Janus/Ada Windows Toolkit R.R. Software Inc 415 West Main Madison WI 53703 Meridian Ada/Windows +SDK Toolkit 10 Pasteur Street Irvine, CA 92718 I have actually used Screen Machine in the MS-DOS environment (Meridian and Alsys). It is easy to use and generates easy to understand code. Its big drawback is that it is character mode. A _BIG_ plus is that the GUI portion of your code is portable to other environments that SM supports (i.e. OSF/Motif). I would recommend that if your friend is trying to write a MS-Windows application that he look into Borland Pascal v7.0. Although Ada is a superior language to Pascal, Borland's toolset and the tools you can buy make BP a superior work environment for Windows development. This is based on my real experience. I have been able to get farther in the past month with BP than I was able to do with my MS-DOS Ada development tools. I would prefer to work in Ada, but until some vendor provides me with the equivalent environment that BP does, I will stick with BP in the MS-DOS world. David Tannen tannend@source.asset.com Practical Computing Solutions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "Dependence on wizardry to mitgate the fundamental limitations of -- software is called 'hacking'." Grady Booch --------------------------------------------------------------------------