RE: Ada bindings for X-Windows

[alleyne@teecs.UUCP (Adrian Alleyne)]

 >> I'm looking for Ada bindings for X.  


The STARS program Ada Bindings:

SAIC developed an Ada binding to Xlib (X11/R2) under the STARS contract.  

There's a version of this binding on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil if you
have FTP access.  There are also a number of companies that sell the
Ada Software Repository on tape (MACA (505) 678-3288).  You can also get it 
from NRL, according the STARS newsletter (which you can get by sending mail to
newsletter@stars.reston.unisys.com).

Many compiler vendors provide a binding mostly based on the orginal STARS version
(e.g. TeleSoft), and there are companies, such as GHG, and Ada Plus that have taken 
the binding and commercialized it.

The (new! improved!) X11R4 binding (for several different compilers) 
was scheduled to be released sometime in September '90.  To get on the mailing list 
for further information, send mail to x-ada-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu.

We have successfully produced our own bindings to Xt and Motif, but I have no
idea if or when they will be released to the public.


SERPENT:

Serpent supports user interface development using both the motif and 
athena toolkit widget sets for X windows AND includes an Ada binding.

This allows the development of ada applications for these X window
toolkits but requires the use of serpent.  we don't necessarily
view this as a bad thing, however. 8^}  we have not yet integrated
the Open Look toolkit but we have developed a tool that allows the
easy integration of X intrinsic based toolkits (i.e., XTK+ but
not XViews).  This tool is provided with serpent and we can assist
you in the integration if you chose to attempt it.  Our experience
has been that it takes approximately 1/2 hour per widget to integrate
a new, X intrinsic based toolkit.

Support for both ada and X has been a strong selling point for
serpent.  There are several groups who are currently developing ada
applications with Motif based user interfaces using serpent.

Serpent is available for anonymous ftp (contact rCs see below) and is also 
available on the MIT X11 Contrib tape.

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Thanks to:  karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg) and rcs@SEI.CMU.EDU (rCs)
            for providing some of the above information.
            

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