Re: Pascal Calling Convention

[Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

On Mar 23, 10:37 pm, Shark8 wrote:

> I was looking around for a way to use the Pascal calling convention in
> GNAT; particularly because I thought it might be nice to do the GUI-
> stuff in good old Delphi 5 and the application itself in Ada. All
> easily doable via DLL or, possibly, through the $L compiler directive
> which specifies a .obj file to link to.

If you start the GUI from scratch, it is perhaps a good idea to
consider using GWindows instead.
Did you have a look ? The library is there: http://sf.net/projects/gnavi/
You can use ResEdit http://www.resedit.net/ for the GUI design, the
code generator (GWenerator) packaged with GWindows, that generates the
appropriate packages in the background.
Add to it free graphical elements like from there: http://www.iconarchive.com/
and you can make absolutely sexy UIs for Windows, all with GNAT,
without any worry about DLLs, pragmas, calling conventions, etc., all
for free! Tempting, isn't it ? Basically you press F4 in GPS and you
get your .exe ... (in the automatic mode, the GWenerator also calls
gnatmake, so you don't even need to press a key!)
Cheers
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