Re: Do you do ASIS?

[Rush Kester <Rush.Kester@jhuapl.edu>]

You should check-out Aonix's ObjectAda for Windows Personal or
Professional editions.  Both have a GUI builder that's easy to use for
building MS Windows (95, NT, & 3.1) applications or the Java Virtual
Machine.  You can also target the MS-DOS environment, (but I don't think
the GUI builder can be used).  The cost of their compiler and a update
subscription is reasonalble.

They have a free "Special" edition that has a compiler and the GUI
builder, but you can save GUI builder's projects.
http://www.aonix.com/Products/CSDS/ada.download.html However, it should
be enough for you to get an idea of what is offered.  If you contact
Aonix you probably could arrange for an evaluation copy of either the
Personal or Professional edition.  See
http://www.aonix.com/Products/CSDS/csds.html

Rush Kester
Software Systems Engineer
AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
email:  rush.kester@jhuapl.edu
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Charles Hixson wrote:

> OK.  Here's my wish-list (apologies if I misunderstand glade).
> In most of these I will be thinking of Win95 systems, since that is
> what most of the applications that I build will probably end up on.
> (Win3.1 support would be nice, but lets be reasonable :-)
> 1)  It should be able to be used in the generation of stand-alone
> programs that do not require a separate library to have been
> previously installed in the computer.  (My main quarrel with gtk is
> that it requires that gtk have been previously installed ... and
> sometimes I don't have the luxury to specify that.)
> 2) It should have a small footprint.  (Partial contradiction of 1,
> sorry about that.  Both hold.)
> 3) It should be reducible to a text screen if necessary.  (The
> comment earlier about:  If worst comes to worst, just declare an
> 80x23 array of characters ... [etc.])
> 4) It should be "embeddable" into fancier forms for use when they
> are available.  (An example of this would be something that would
> take one parameter that matches the built GUI and another that
> matches some add-on (say, a sprite that dances around the cursor, or
> drop-shadows around every menu box, or...) and result in
> "something"  (code?, object referenced?) that can be used to draw
> the fancier form.  (It would be nice if the file format was
> accommodating enough that these could be stacked with several layers
> of upgraded being sandwiched together.)
> 5)  It should be a layered protocol, with many optional annexes, so
> that no more than is needed has to be included with the compiled
> program.
>
> Of course the simple parts of this can be handled by the Ansi.sys
> package with the ?Feldman? screen drawing extensions.  And the fancy
> parts can be handled by Glade.  But from my position of ignorance it
> doesn't appear that there is any smooth transition between the two
> positions.  (Does Win2K come with GTK installed?  If so, then as the
> decade passes most of this will become increasingly less relevant.
> But since there are still Win3.1 machines, it may be awhile before I
> can count on GTK being pre-installed.)
>
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > In article <IDix4.59$f_1.12450@eagle.america.net>,
> >   "William J. Thomas" <wjthomas@wcvt.com> wrote:
> > > Team up with someone who will create a dynamite GUI builder
> > > for Gnat, (I mean a good one) and you could pave the way for a
> > > great environment !!!
> >
> > Everyone can agree that they want a "good" GUI builder (it would
> > be hard to disagree, but stating this without details is not
> > much help). It would be constructive for example to explain
> > what you would like to see that is not provided by GLADE, the
> > GUI builder associated with GtkAda.
> >
> > Robert Dewar
> > Ada Core Technologies
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.