From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,557136a92a6a20c7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Rush Kester Subject: Ada GUI Builders (was Re: Do you do ASIS? Date: 2000/03/24 Message-ID: <38DBF108.F171D73A@jhuapl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 601889058 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <89ot3v$og9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8a6f9c$5tt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38C6D176.9A7AB6C7@earthlink.net> <38C7DE96.6423602@jhuapl.edu> To: "William J. Thomas" X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@houston.jhuapl.edu X-Trace: houston.jhuapl.edu 953927380 2599 128.244.45.70 (24 Mar 2000 19:49:40 GMT) Organization: AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Univ/ Applied Physics Lab Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2000 19:49:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-24T19:49:40+00:00 List-Id: "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) fax: (240) 228-6779 http://hometown.aol.com/rwkester/myhomepage/index.html