Re: Is there a Graphical IDE to GNAT 3.14p (Win2K platform)?

[Pheet <a.pheet@NOTINNEDMEATntlworld.com>]

Hiya,

I quite like SciTE, http://www.scintilla.org - it copes with practically
every language out there and also has a nice export to html function.

If you want purely an Ada IDE, try GNAT IDE by John English from
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/ .

HTH,

Pheet

Daniel Dudley wrote:
> 
> Having just discovered Ada as an interesting alternative to
> other imperitive programming languages with which I am
> competent, I downloaded and installed GNAT 3.14p on my
> Windows 2000 system only to find that there is no graphical
> IDE supplied (GNU Visual Debugger excluded).
> 
> (Aside: why is it that most providers of programming tools
> try to force command-line interfaces on Windows users? What
> could be more unnatural than a command-line interface on
> Windows or, for that matter, Macintosh?)
> 
> Not quite ready to dispair yet, I downloaded a separate
> program called AdaGIDE, which supposedly is compatible with
> GNAT and Win95/NT, but, as it turned out, not with Win2K
> (incompatible virtual device driver). :-(
> 
> Are there alternative GIDEs available? Obviously in the
> learning phrase I would want to minimize my outlay, at
> least until such time as I'm comfortable programming in Ada
> and quite sure it is what the "hype" makes it out to be.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel