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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a43471f113780a14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-09 07:26:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!newsfeed.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D03653F.F1A096B1@NOTINNEDMEATntlworld.com> From: Pheet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is there a Graphical IDE to GNAT 3.14p (Win2K platform)? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 15:25:03 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.84.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net 1023632777 80.1.84.33 (Sun, 09 Jun 2002 15:26:17 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 15:26:17 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25594 Date: 2002-06-09T15:25:03+01:00 List-Id: 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