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

[Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey<NOSPAM>"@raytheon.com>]

AdaGide works fine with Windows 2000 and is available from:
http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html
It used to be included with GNAT as discussed in the README
but the above link is mentioned.  I assume AdaGide is no longer  included
with GNAT because it gets updated quite often so it is better to get
the latest version directly and then check back from time to time for new
releases.
Try reinstalling both GNAT and AdaGide again.  It definitely should
work.  It is a very nice GUI.  If you are doing some windows programs,
I have also found John English's JEWL package very useful as well.
See:
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/jewl/

Good luck.  I think you'll love Ada if you give it a chance.

Jerry
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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