From: Rush Kester <Rush.Kester@jhuapl.edu>
To: "William J. Thomas" <wjthomas@wcvt.com>
Subject: Ada GUI Builders (was Re: Do you do ASIS?
Date: 2000/03/24
Date: 2000-03-24T19:49:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38DBF108.F171D73A@jhuapl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: T4Vy4.242$3E2.55968@eagle.america.net
"William J. Thomas" wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Actually that's what I use right now, its the best that's available with
> support but it is still a long way from GUI heaven. What I was looking for
> was something as sophisticated as Visual Basic. Say what you want, but when
> it comes to dropping in third party OCX components, nothing works like VB.
> The only problem with VB is that once you get past the wonderful visual
> design phase you are now stuck with a language that stinks to say the least.
> After spending close to 18 years coding in Ada nothing else comes close.
>
> But that doesn't mean I can't wish for an environment that rivals MS Visual
> Studio for Ada with all the bells and whistles.
>
> William J. Thomas
> ---------------------------
> WJThomas@WCVT.Com
You should check out David Botton's BINDCOM tool at http://www.adapower.com it
can generate an Ada binding to an .EXE, .DLL, or .OCX.
--
Rush Kester
Software Systems Engineer
AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
email: rush.kester@jhuapl.edu
phone: (240) 228-3030 (live M-F 9:30am-4:30pm, voicemail anytime)
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-03 0:00 Do you do ASIS? Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-03 0:00 ` David W. Glessner
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-03-05 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-03-07 0:00 ` William J. Thomas
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Rush Kester
2000-03-12 0:00 ` William J. Thomas
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-13 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-24 0:00 ` Rush Kester [this message]
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-14 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-14 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Rush Kester
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