Re: Is Ada Any Good for Windows?

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3265CA04.521A@easystreet.com>, Al Christians <achrist@EASYSTREET.COM> writes:
> There has been some discussion lately of bindings to enable Windows(32)
> programming from Ada, and of what Ada is used for.  I should like to
> combine these and ask, is Ada any good for Windows GUI programming?

I believe it is better than not using Ada. I believe it is worse than
not having to do Windows GUI programming in the first place :-).

>                                                         3. How do the
> Thomson products for Ada under Windows stack up against the competitive
> packages for other languages for doing quick and easy UI's?

Basic layout of windows and placement of objects seems to work well,
although with somewhat fewer graphic object types included than Delphi
or Visual Basic provide.  On the other hand, the base capability of the
GUI generator seems well matched to those features generally available
across all environments (Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT),
which is important to me. I do not (yet) have the add on option
which should make MFC versions of some additional objects available
for hand-coding.  For all I know there is some other way to do MFC,
but at the Thomson price scale for this product set, I find it easier
to buy from them than to seek other sources.

Caveat: I have no inclination to go drawing my own vectors on the screen,
but given your qualification of "quick and easy UI's", I presume you do
not have such an inclination either.

Larry Kilgallen