Re: Ada source code bindings

Re: Ada source code bindings

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ct]

In article <1993Jul14.110344.6978@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> bgilles@wvnvms.wvnet.edu wr
ites:
>I am interested in finding bindings between
>1.  Ada and Motif
>2.  Ada and SQL
>for which the source code is available.
>Any help would be appreciated.  Please reply to email address.

I have been using the AXI Ada/Motif bindings (bought from Verdix) with
SunAda and have been very happy.  Cost is $2000 from Verdix and the
same from AXI directly.

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Re: Ada source code bindings

[Joe Hildebrand]

>> On 22 Jul 93 16:32:45 GMT, agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!
cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ctcvax.ccf.swri.edu!trident!tim@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Tim
othy J. Barton) said:
   Timothy> In article <1993Jul14.110344.6978@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
   Timothy> bgilles@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
   > I am interested in finding bindings between 1.  Ada and Motif 2.
   > Ada and SQL for which the source code is available.  Any help
   > would be appreciated.  Please reply to email address.

   Timothy> I have been using the AXI Ada/Motif bindings (bought from
   Timothy> Verdix) with SunAda and have been very happy.  Cost is
   Timothy> $2000 from Verdix and the
   Timothy> same from AXI directly.

I used what was probably a different version than you did (SunAda 1.0,
Motif 1.1.2), and would not reccomend the product.  It had several
bugs that took us days to program circles around.  For example:

Xm.ListGetSelectedItems did not work.
Xt.AppAddWorkProc did not work.
etc.

One of the major gripes I have was stylistic rather than functional.
AXI uses a different data type for the indices of the resource array
and the number of resources passed to Xt.SetArg.  In C you do:

n=0;
XtSetArg(Resources(n), XmNfoo, BAR); n++;
XtSetArg(Resources(n), XmNbaro, FOO); n++;
...
XtSetValues(myWidget, Resources, n);

But AXI used Cardinal for the indices to Resources, and some other
type of (incompatible) type for the count parameter to XtSetValues, et
al.


I haven't tried either a new version of AXI's bindings, or the SERC
bindings (available from ICS), but I would certainly look around a bit
before deciding on bindings for my next project.


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