I'm not here... (was Re: New Ada Windows Technology)

I'm not here... (was Re: New Ada Windows Technology)

[David Wood]

At 11:46 PM 2/7/97 -0800, Dr. Robert Leif wrote:
>From: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
>Acting Chair San Diego ACM SigAda
>
>To: San Diego ACM SigAda Members and Other Interested Parties
>
>Date: 7 February, 1997
>
>Announcement: 26 February, 1997 (Wednesday) San Diego ACM SigAda Meeting
>
>Speaker : Jim Dorman, President Active Engineering Technologies, Inc.
>
>Subject: Class Libraries for Ada Windows, CLAW, a thick binding to
>Microsoft Windows TM
>
>Date: Wednesday, 26 February, 1997
>
>Time: 6:30 PM
>
>Lecture Starts promptly at 7:00 PM
>
>Duration: About 1 hour.
>
>Place: AONIX (Thompson) Software Products, which is located at 10251 Vista
>Sorrento Parkway, Suite #300, San Diego, CA  92121-2706.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------
>Abstract: The following is an abridgement of the RR SOFTWARE web site,
>http://www.RRSOFTWARE.com
>
>CLAW FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT/95 gives application developers the ability
>to develop Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95 systems using any ACVC compliant
>Ada 95 compiler. It also provides an object-oriented Ada 95 binding to the
>Win32 Graphical User Interface (GUI) used in Microsoft's Windows NT and
>Windows 95. The front end environment is a GUI builder, with available
>construction tools that allow the creation of GUIs by drawing, with code
>automatically created from the drawn                GUIs.
>
>Claw's object oriented set of libraries provide the user with the necessary
>resources to access the Windows Graphical Interface. Claw allows
>programming in Ada 95 in good Ada form without having to use intermediary
>commands or do further modifications.
>The bindings take care of the entire conversion from Ada 95 to the
>Microsoft Windows 95/NT operating system.
>
>CLAW PROVIDES A THICK BINDING. All bindings are not the same. There are two
>types of bindings: thin and thick. Thin (or direct) bindings are an
>attempted one-for-one
>conversion between the source language and the target interface. Claw is a
>thick binding for Ada 95. It uses tagged types, inheritance, default
>parameters, returns errors as exceptions not error codes, and dynamic
>building to ease the construction of code and to keep the size and
>maintainability of the binding manageable.
>
>Mixed language programs are almost always harder to maintain. By using
>Claw, a programmer does not have to learn any other programming language.
>
>By avoiding the use of both C and C++, the problems of lack of reliability
>and poor safety features may be avoided. Unlike those two languages, Ada is
>designed to be safe, with the opportunity to bypass the features if the
>situation warrants.
>
>The CLAW builder can generate Ada 95 code using the CLAW  binding. The
>generated code is object-oriented, and uses good Ada style. The code uses
>readable identifiers, as selected by the user, which enhances the
>readability and understandability of the
>generated code. The generated code can be compiled with any validated Ada
>95 compiler.
>
>CLAW takes advantage Ada95 tasking features to provide a tasking safe
>environment for Windows programming, where such protection does not usually
>exist.
>
>The Claw builder also creates resources in the standard resource language.
>These resources couple to the generated Ada code to help avoid errors.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------
>Speaker Brief Biography:
>Jim Dorman is a veteran of the Ada community.  He was Marketing  Manager
>for AETECH and is the founder of AdaActive Engineering Technologies, Inc.
>AdaActive Engineering mission was to support AETECH and Alsys (Thomson,
>Aonix) customer base with products based on AETECH technology.
>
>Current projects include working on the CLAW (Class Libraries for Ada
>Windows) with R.R. Software in Madison, WI.  Active Engineering is porting
>it's Visual Ada GUI design and source code generator to work with the CLAW
>libraries.
>
>Active Engineering's supports a WEB site at "http://www.pcada.com" to target
>Ada development on PC's.  Active Engineering currently offers IntegrAda,
>IntegrAda for Windows, Visual Ada, LearnAda, AdaData (an Ada binding to
>dBASE), AdaGraphics, and many more Ada products.  A complete toolset is also
>offered to provide DOS development for ActivAda and Janus/Ada compilers.
>Using these libraries and tools you can write "interchangeable" source code
>between compilers from three different vendors.  These tools are currently
>being ported to Ada95.
>
>Active Engineering's IntegrAda for Windows/NT is the standard Ada compiler
>on the U.S. Coast Guard's Eagle procurement.  IntegrAda/386 is the standard
>compiler for the U.S. Army's CHS-II contract.  Other Ada compilers featured
>on DoD contracts include IntegrAda & XAda on the U.S. Air Force's Desktop
>III & IV procurements.
>
>Recent projects include upgrading our compiler interface to include C++ and
>Fortran; the addition of a "Job Opportunities" section at our WEB Site; and
>plans to put "LearnAda" on the WEB.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----------------------------
>Please RSVP Robert C. Leif,  if you wish to join the preprogram pizza meal
>($5.00 per person).
>
>RSVP Tel. & Fax  Robert C. Leif (San Diego ACM SIGAda Vice Chair)
>(619) 582-0437 (Voice and FAX), e-mail rleif@rleif.com (Robert C. Leif,
>Ph.D.).  Please include the number of individuals desiring pizza, any
>special requirements,  your name, telephone number and/or e-mail number when
>responding by telephone, Fax, or E-mail. Please Include the Words Pizza or
>SigAda in the Subject line of your e-mail.
>
>Directions:
>
>>From 805 going North:  Take the Mira Mesa Blvd./Vista Sorrento Parkway
>exit.  Stay on the left side of the exit ramp. After the traffic light at
>Mira Mesa Blvd., go about 0.5 miles North West.  Thomson is on the right
>hand side, 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway.  You need to look for the Thomson
>(AONIX) sign on the right.  It is located after a bend in the road. You
>need to be
>careful not be going so quickly that you zoom past the driveway into
>Thomson (AONIX).
>If you exit 805 going North in any of the right (North) lanes,
>you will be FORCED to turn right onto Mira Mesa Blvd.
>
>>From 805 going South: Take the Mira Mesa Blvd./Sorrento Valley Road exit.
>Turn left onto Mira Mesa Blvd.  Take the first left onto Vista Sorrento
>Parkway (at the signal just beyond the freeway overpass).
>Go about 0.5 miles North West.  Thomson (AONIX) is on the right hand side,
>10251
>Vista Sorrento Parkway.   You need to look for the Thomson (AONIX) sign on the
>right.  It is located after a bend in the road. You need to be careful not
>be going so quickly that you zoom past the driveway into Thomson.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------
>PLEASE NOTE New E-Mail Address: rleif@rleif.com
>
>If you are not on this distribution and wish to receive these announcements,
>please send your e-mail address to rleif@rleif.com
>
>If you are on this distribution and do not wish to continue to receive these
>announcements, please notify Robert Leif at rleif@rleif.com. Inclusion of
>your e-mail address will facilitate its removal from the SigAda mailing list.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----------------------------
>
>Robert C. Leif, Ph.D., PMIAC,
>Vice President & Research Director
>Ada_Med, A Division of Newport Instruments
>Tel. & Fax (619) 582-0437
>Please send e-mail to my new address, rleif@rleif.com
>Thank you.
>
>


I am travelling until February 10, 1997.  If this is
an urgent matter, please direct it to jbrygier@aonix.com.
Otherwise, I will respond as soon as possible when I
return.


-- Dave Wood
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows
-- Aonix - "Ada with an Attitude"