Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) version 7.1

Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) version 7.1

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Visual Ada Developer  VAD           
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VAD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version. 
VAD is distributed in the hope, that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 

VAD 7.1 Common description. 

1. VAD ( Visual Ada Developer ) is a Tcl/Tk oriented Ada-95(TCL)
GUI builder portable to difference platforms, such as Windows NT/9x,Unix
(Linux),
Mac and OS/2. You may use it as IDE for any Ada-95(05) (C,C++,TCL) 
project.

You may use it to build TCL script only. 
VAD generated ada sources,you may compile and build executable
with GNAT in Windows and Unix(Linux) or Aonix ObjectAda 7.2 in Windows.

2. Used software 

GNAT 2007   Ada-05 compiler ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat

TCL/TK 8.4.14 http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/
TCL/TK 8.5x  http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/

W A R N I N G ! VAD 7.1 has two realization

for tcl/tk8.x ,  tcl/tk 8.4.x and tcl/tk 8.5.x , you need to
install and to check tcl/tk before using of VAD. 

From vertion tcl/tk 8.4.0.1 ActiveState distribution includes
many of VAD used packages (Itcl,Img,Tktable,BWidgets,Tkhtml and so on). 
You may choice needed version in link time. 

TASH 8.02 by Terry J. Westley http://tash.calspan.com/ 
IMG 1.3 package by Jan Nijtmans &ltJan.Nijtmans@wxs.nl&gt. 
Icons 1.2 by Adrian Davis (adrian@satisoft.com) 
Help System ( Html browser from Editors and Parsers menu) by
     Andrei A. Gratchev &ltgrand@midc.miem.edu.ru>
TkPaint - a simple Image Editor http://www.netanya.ac.il/
~samy/tkpaint.html
RAPID-1 By Martin Carlisle 
BWIDGETS 1.7.1 tk extension http://www.unifix-online.com/BWidget
McListbox,mcombobox by Bryan Oakley &ltoakley@channelpoint.com&gt
   http://purl.oclc.org/net/oakley/tcl/mclistbox/index.html
Toplevelmanager(window::or) by Mark G. Saye 
Tktable by Jeff Hobs &ltjeff.hobbs@acm.org> 
      http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/capp/
FTP_library by Stefen Traeger 
    http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger
Csh1.0 package by Mohamed Baccar 
     htt: //members.aol.com/~mbaccar/pub/csh10.zip

Snack 2.2 multimaedia sound by Kare Sjolander
     http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
BLT 3.0 ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt 
Itcl 4.0 http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm 
Tix 8.4 Tix Tcl/Tk extension 
QuickTimeTcl 3.0 multimedia movie (Quick Time for Windows and Mac) 
    by Mats Bengtsson and Bruce O'Neel
MPlayerTcl 0.0.1 multimedia movie (Quick Time, Divx, mpeg for Unix) by 
Cyril Barabto 
    http://mplayertcl.sourceforge.net
Tclgtk Gtk widget collection on Tcl http://tcl-gtk.sourceforge.net.
Oratcl 4.1 Oracle connection (Oracle 9i support) 
http://oratcl.sourceforge.net
XBit 4.0 Multimedia extension by Chengye Mao 
    http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/soft.html
Optcl 3.0 - conversion between Tcl objects and COM types by
    Farzad Pezeshkpour (Windows only)

OpenGL support packages 
Tkogl OpenGL extension by Claudio Esperanca 
    http://aquarius.lcg.ufrj.br/~esperanc/tkogl.html
tom - Tcl/Tk OpenGL Wrapper - fred 
    URL=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24950
&release_id=30715
VTK 4.4.2 OpenGL extension by Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen 
    http://public.kitware.com/VTK/files
Tkhtml 3.0 package by Richard Hipp 
Fve Free text editor by Kazuo Sasagawa 
Hex A simple Hex Editor by George Peter Staplin 
August Free HTML editor by Johan Bengtsson 
ASED Tcl/Tk IDE by Andreas Sievers 
Dom, TclXML XML parser http://www.zveno.com 
Whiteboard 0.94.3 Image and Media Viewer by Mats Behgtsson 
TkMC File manager by Grigoriy Abramov 
IDL_To_Ada_Translator by Scott R. Bennet http://www.mitre.org
TCL/TK XML intelligence Visual Editor by Alexander V.Dederer
     http://tkxmlive.sourceforge.net

InstallJammer Multiplatfort Installer

W A R N I N G ! Many of tcl/tk packages were tested for TCL/TK 8.4 (8.5)
in Windows and RedHat Fedora Core Linux, you may download from my site
http://www.websamba.com/GUIBUILDER

Full VAD Directory tree 
VAD -- root directory 
  rcom -- common rcom package files tree in VAD root direcory
  adagraph -- adgraph package
  AdaOpenGl -- Ada To OpenGl interfase
  ased -- ased IDL
  august -- august HTML editor
  corba -- Corba Ada Interface spacification
  csh -- Xterminal package
  fve -- FVE file editor
  gifs -- gifs image collection
  help -- Help files in HTML format tree with subdirectories
  idl -- Corba to Ada translator
  image -- bitmap collection
  lib -- Tcl/Tk packages
  samples -- Samples directories tree
  tkpaint -- Tkpaint image editor
  tutorial -- VAD tutorial files in HTML format
  vad71src -- VAD sources (without common rcom tree packages)
  whiteboard -- Whiteboard image processor
  Linux -- Linux binaries i386
  win32 -- Windows binaries and componenets
  xbit -- XBit image processor
  xml -- XML parser files
  XmlAda -- XMLADA parser package

VAD generates and uses *.gui file in text format for abstract
widgets descriptions. This file has a simple format and may
be corrected manually. You may associate *.gui file with VAD and load it
directly. 

VAD project is a part of yours project and build widgets tree from 
Toplevel
widget. In common project directory, you may create several VAD 
projects. 
Application may has several vad projects. 

VAD generates next files : 

<tproject name>.adb - main ada program (only one for project)
<tproject name>init.ads - initialized gui package 
<tproject name>init.adb 
<tproject name>event.ads - Event handlers package 
<tproject name>event.adb ( empty functions for events). 
<tproject name>.tcl - TCL script for quick check or TCL oriented 
project. 

W A R N I N G ! Old ada files saved in *.$ds and *.$db files
W A R N I N G ! You may reset Gnat enviro�ment, edit , compile,
link and execute generated ada files from Gnat menu.
VAD need system variable VAD_HOME

for example : SET VAD_HOME=C:\VAD - for Windows 
              export VAD_HOME=/vad - for Unix(Linux)

New project you may create by NEW dialog in existing project directory 

TCL/TK is a script language and it has many difference forms to describe 
widgets. 

For widget placing I use disp (layout) property with follow values : 
   noplace
   place
   grid
   pack (default)
   setwidget (for BWidgets)

and manager property for tcl script building 

W A R N I N G !!! You may use Layout wizard from WIZARD menu
to build script for used layout or to build embeded window (in canvas or 
text)

For example for placing widget .w.b in pack layout need to write
disp :pack 
manager:.w.b -side top 

If you want to pack several widgets in one pack (for example 3) look at 
packbuton.gui sample. 

In addcreate property you may write all addition information for widget 
creation. 

W A R N I N G !!! You may use Properties WIZARD from WIZARD menu 
                  to build spesific widgets options

I tried to write online help for many of used properties and simple 
samples. 

W A R N I N G !!! You may see Help for Widget by push F1 for selected 
Widget 
(mouse on widget icon or active Properties Inspector for widget)

If VAD can not correct error EXCEPTION, it creates ABEND.GUI file. 

I recommend to save information before property/event switching
by click Add Widget/Correct Widget button 

In any time you may see widgets tree from View Tree (menu VIEW).

Widgets tree available in New Widget pathname dialog. On Widget's
tree you may select widget and load Properties Inspercor for it. 

HELP menu allows by internal HTML viewer ( I use HTML_LIBRARY package 
from Sun) and tkhtml (if it defined in tcl).

From Settings menu you may change some VAD definitions. 

If you planed work with generated TCL script, you may turn off
    Emulate Tcl Proc  in Settings menu

I hope VAD will be useful for Ada (and TCL) programmers and
easy in work. This is an effective way to build gui oriented system 
independent applications
in pure ADA-95. 

VAD 7.1 supports many of image formats such as 

BMP, XBM, XPM, GIF (with transparency), PNG, JPEG, TIFF, ICO,PCX, PPM, 
PIXMAP, SGI, 
RAS, RGB, TGA, SUN , WINDOW and postscript(PS). 

You need to install Img1.3 package and check it to work in Tcl/Tk.
W A R N I N G !!! You may animate animated gifs 

For formats difference from xbm and gif you may use jpeg image type. 

By icons package you may use a huge icons collections as tcl/tk image 

A simple free Image editor TKpaint (with little changing ) by Samy 
Zafrany 
An Adasource from RAPID image generator by Martin C. Carlisle and 
Patrick Maes. 

Widgets Table 
-------------
1. Base TCL/TK widgets 

toplevel frame button radiobutton checkbutton menubutton label
entry listbox canvas message menu item scrollbox scale text panedwindow
spinbox labelframe 

W A R N I N G . Item widget you may use to : 

  a. Create menu item;
  b. Create mclitBox column;
  c. Create Tree node.

2. BWidgets 
------------
Button Label Entry ListBox ArrowButton ProgressBar MainFrame LabelFrame 
LabelEntry TitleFrame Dialog ScrolledWindow PanedWindow ButtonBox 
NoteBook (Page) SpinBox Tree MessageDlg ProgressDlg ScrollableFrame 
ScrollView PagesManager PasswdDlg 

W A R N I N G ! If you use PanedWindow (or panedwindow in tcl/tk 8.4), 
you need 

  a. Create PanedWindow;
  b. Create first page for PanedWindow (Page dialog);
  c. Create all widgets in this page;
  d. Create second page an so on.

3. Widgets from Bryan Oakley 
combobox mclistBox 

4. Direct executable Tcl script 
TclScript 

5. table widget from Tktable Package 

W A R N I N G !!! You need to install Tktable package and check it to 
works in Tcl/Tk

6. Graph and Barchart widgets from BLT package 

W A R N I N G !!! You need to install BLT package and check it to works 
in Tcl/Tk 
and load from TCL Packages menu 

7. CScrollbar (scrollbar analog) 

8. html widget from Tkhtml package 

9. OGLwin widget from Tkogl package or Tom package 

10. vtkTkRenderWidget and vtkTkImageViewerWidget from VTK (Visualization 
Tool Kit) 

11. Scrolled Widgets (text canvas listbox mclistbox tktable html) 

W A R N I N G !!! Scrolled widgets are built as frame with scrollbars 
and widget 
Widget name is automatic tailes with .swd 
Scrollbars are visible if need 

12. Media widget (media for Unix MplayerTcl and movie for Windows and 
Mac QuickTimeTcl) 

W A R N I N G !!! You may copy widget's properties from builded widget
to new by Copy from item (WIZRD menu) 

W A R N I N G !!! You may import widgets form other project(gui file) 
by Import item (from Utils menu) 

13. ttk new Tcl/Tk 8.5 widgets



VAD 7.1 has internal tcl packages support from Packages menu.

W A R N I N G !!! After loading,tcl package can not be unloaded.
If you have instaled Oratcl package and loaded it, you may 
directly work with Oracle server from Oracle menu. 

S a m p l e s L i s t 
---------------------
snack - Snack Sound extension 
blt - BLT extension 
blt.gui - Tables in BLT 
graph.gui - Graphs in BLT 
barchart.gui - Barchart in BLT 
bwidgets - BWidgets extension (full support in VAD) 
pagemgr.gui - pages manager 
tree.gui - tree 
mclist.gui - multicolumn list 
combobox.gui - combobox 
scrolledwindow.gui - scrollable window 
nb.gui - notebook 
colorfont.gui - colours and fonts 
panedwindow.gui - paned window 
buttonbox.gui - button box 
dragdrop.gui - drag and drop 
htext.gui - hyper text 
tip.gui - tip window 
ttkcombo.gui - ttk combobox 
adavtk - VTK (Visualization Tool Kit) support in VAD 
puzzle - vtk sphere puzzle game 
polyViewer - VTK file formats viewer 
volGeo - multirender sample 
adatkvtk - vtk sample 
adavtklens - vtk sample 
textmv - vtk sample 
WheelMouse - vtk sample with WheelMouse events handling 
ftp - ftp complex example 
itcl - I[ncr]tcl package extension 
oracle - Oracle support in VAD (oratcl 4.x) 
odbc - ODBC support in VAD (tclodbc 2.5)
animation - Animated gifs in VAD example 
scrcanv - scrollable frame as window in canvas example 
money - complex example 
HTML_Viewer - complex example internal HTML viewer 
HV - complex example HTML viewer used Tkhtml package 
Dirview - complex example 
Find - complex example (find files by pattern with directory recursion) 
Table - complex example (binary tree and access types in Ada-95)
Tktable - complex example Tktable widget in VAD (standard and scrolled 
variants) 
HV - complex example html widget based html viewer 
Calculator - complex example 
Limits - complex example ( it demonstrates cursors in different places 
of window) 
Hanoi - the Hanoi tower sample 
Philosophers - dinning philosophers sample 
Sort - the sort sample (quick sort,shell, insertion sort) 
Tetris - a simple tetris game with tasks 
Fiveteen - a simple Fiveteen game 
SokoBan - a Sokoban game by Jeff Godfrey 
tix - Tix extension 
fg - run executable from application 
Quicktimevideo - Qiuck Time Video (QuickTimeTcl in Windows or MPlayerTcl 
in Unix(Linux) )
Tkogl - OpenGL texture sample 
Tkogl - OpenGL nurbsdemo sample 
Tkogl - OpenGL gencyldemo sample 
Mpegmovie - MPEG movie for Windows and Unix by XBit 3.4 package
Video - DDW movie for Windows by XBit 4.0 package 
Mci - Load Mplayer to play media in Windows with optcl package
Mp3player - MP3 Sound player by SNACK package 
draw - Simpe drawing with Rcom.Draw base package 
adagr - Simpe drawing with Adagraph package 
graph - Simpe BLT graph sample 
barchart - Simpe BLT barchart sample 
3Dgraph - 3D cube drawing with Rcom.Draw package 
Toplevelmanager - Sample how to manage toplevel widget(fullsceen,no 
borders, ...) 
canvas.gui - a simple example for canvas in tcl/tk 
filemenu.gui - a simple example for menubutton and PopUp menu
fonts.gui - a simple example for fonts in tcl/tk 
form.gui - a complex example 
frame1.gui - a simple example for frame in tcl/tk 
grid1.gui - a simple example for grid layout in tcl/tk 
grid2.gui - a simple example for grid layout in tcl/tk 
imagetst.gui - a simple example for images in tcl/tk 
message.gui - a simple example for message widget in tcl/tk
place.gui - a simple example for place layout in tcl/tk 
packbuton.gui - a simple example for pack layout in tcl/tk 
scale.gui - a simple example for scale widget in tcl/tk 
textxy.gui - a simple example for scrollable text in tcl/tk
textscrol.gui - a simple example for scrolled text widget 
ctextxy.gui - a simple example for cscrollable text in tcl/tk
In WEB Browser you may run VAD Tutorial from vad/tutorial/vadtutor.htm

VAD 7.1 is available in http://www.websamba.com/GUIBUILDER
You may dowload sources vad71scr.tar.bz2, vadhlp.tar.bz2, 
vadtutor.tar.bz2,
vadsmp.tar.bz2,vad71aonix.tar.bz2,adahlp.tar.bz2, vadtcl.tar.bz2,
adastyle.tar.bz2,philosofers.tar.bz2,vadidl.tar.bz2

and binaries vad71win.tar.bz2 (WINDOWS 9x/NT) 
vad71lin.tar.bz2 (i386)
Any questions, any ideias, any problems, any help 

Leonid Dulman(leonid_dulman@yahoo.co.uk) 

Re: Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) version 7.1

[Jerry]

On Mar 16, 11:08 am, * <leonid_dul...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Visual Ada Developer  VAD

> VAD 7.1 is available in http://www.websamba.com/GUIBUILDER


Has anyone used this? There isn't much information about it on the web
site (the long-winded installation instructinos notwithstanding).

Jerry