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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a490d3ac9037f9c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fogartys@aol.com (Fogartys) Subject: ObjectAda Libraries Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <19971031212700.QAA03641@ladder02.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287069400 X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I've just purchase ObjectAda Personal Edition and sent in my registration card, but it will probably still be a week or so before I'm eligable for the ObjectAda mailing list or my 30 day window of Aonix telephone support. In the meantime, I'm hopefull that experienced ObjectAda users might point me in the right direction in taking advantage of ObjectAda's built-in libraries. For example, even though it's not a required element of the language, I would expect there to be a library package named perhaps, TRIG_FUNCTIONS, that I could "with" into my program and then use cosine, sine, etc. If such libraries are not included it's not the end of the world; I can write my own. All the same, I'd be dismayed that a $245 commercial compiler would come without such basic functions. Also, although I didn't get the more expensive professional edition that includes the GUI (Graphic User Interface) Builder, my understanding was that I could still build GUI's in the personal edition by typing in all the code by hand. Yet in the help features and courseware I have not found any hint of packages that I could "with" into my program to create even simple buttons or do basic pixel manipulation within a window. Perhaps I am missing something obvious. After all, all my previous Ada programming experience (which includes built-from-scratch GUI programming) has been in DOS. For that reason, if anyone can recommend a textbook that has been particularly helpful in making the transition between DOS and Windows programming, that also would be appreciated. Sincerely, John Fogarty