* want opinions: GUI building environments
@ 1996-09-06 0:00 dave
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
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From: dave @ 1996-09-06 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
If anyone has strong opinions or suggestions about Ada-based GUI
development environments, please let me know.
The best product I have seen information about so far, seems to be
ObjectAda from Thomson. Does anyone have any experience with this?
We use a wide variety of platforms, so something that runs on Windows, a
few flavors of UN*X and, maybe, OS/2 would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
-- Dave Jones
davedave@io.com
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* Re: want opinions: GUI building environments
1996-09-06 0:00 want opinions: GUI building environments dave
@ 1996-09-11 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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From: Richard Riehle @ 1996-09-11 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, dave wrote:
> If anyone has strong opinions or suggestions about Ada-based GUI
> development environments, please let me know.
>
> The best product I have seen information about so far, seems to be
> ObjectAda from Thomson. Does anyone have any experience with this?
There is a product on the way from RR Software that is a "thick"
binding to Windows 95 and Windows NT. It is somewhat similar to
Microsoft Foundation Class (maybe a little higher level even than
MFC) and should work, when ready, with Thomson's compiler, GNAT,
RR Software's compiler, as well as any other Win 95/NT compiler.
You might want to check with Ian Goldberg of RR Software to get
more information. They are in Madison, Wisconsin. Phone number
I have (although I think they also have an 800 number) is:
(608) 251-3133
The important thing about this product is that it should work with
everyone's Ada compiler for NT/95 eventually.
Richard Riehle
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* Re: want opinions: GUI building environments
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
@ 1996-09-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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From: Larry Kilgallen @ 1996-09-12 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <Pine.GSO.3.92.960911175806.19415C-100000@nunic.nu.edu>, Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, dave wrote:
>
>> If anyone has strong opinions or suggestions about Ada-based GUI
>> development environments, please let me know.
>>
>> The best product I have seen information about so far, seems to be
>> ObjectAda from Thomson. Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
> There is a product on the way from RR Software that is a "thick"
> binding to Windows 95 and Windows NT. It is somewhat similar to
> Microsoft Foundation Class (maybe a little higher level even than
> MFC) and should work, when ready, with Thomson's compiler, GNAT,
> RR Software's compiler, as well as any other Win 95/NT compiler.
I may be missing context from the initial post, and I do not wish
to belittle either of the products mentioned, but what I would really
like is portability between operating systems. I need to do the same
sort of thing on multiple operating systems, and it would be possible
to have common GUI code do _most_ of it, but there are little nits on
each platform and I am worried about having those overlooked (by me
or by a vendor) in the quest for portability.
For instance, I was reading through the MacApp C++ class library
description, and given that MacApp is from Apple it covers all the
Macintosh-specific nits which might not exist on another platform.
I am not sure if AppleGuide coach marks are among those nits, but
that is an example of a platform-specific feature one is expected
to support by platform zealots.
For Motif the new Common Desktop Environment (which looks like a wide
version of the old LaunchPad on OS/2) expects applications to take
certain actions with regard to saving state on logout.
I know so little about OS/2 that I am sure there must also be some
nits there which do not exist in other GUI environments and thus
might be missed in a general GUI development tool.
So my desire would be for a GUI development environment which had
a winning approach for sorting out these differences, so the result
is a program capable of passing muster with a true Defender of the Faith
for each of the GUI environments on the market.
Larry Kilgallen
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