Re: Ada script, anyone

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "Xcriber51" <xcriber@[OMITTED]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>This will probably be a (slightly?) absurd question, but is there an Ada
>>(script) interpreter?
> 
> 
> http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html
> 
> 
>>The reason I'm asking is I know a C/C++ interpreter which, though it is a
>>barebones commandline interpreter and does not provide the full comfort of
>>an integrated IDE (with a debugger, etc.), makes life easier.
>>
>>It'd be great to have a tool like the universally ever popular Visual
>>Basic thing - which most coders I know prefer to everything else - that'd
>>be as easy to get going and introduce them (or help them side-grade) to
>>Ada.
> 
> 
> If you are looking for a direct replacement for Visual Basic, I don't
> think there is one right now. However there is a project on
> SourceForge to make one:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnavi
> 
> From what I gather, GNAVI is work in progress.  Some parts of it, in
> particular the GWindows library, are already mature, but the GUI
> builder is beta.  GWindows is Windows only but there are plans to port
> it to other platforms.
> 
> Another solution is AdaCore's development suite for GTK+ or GNOME
> development.  This works on many platforms.
> 
> * Glade is a point-and-click GUI builder that represents your GUI as
>   an XML file.  The associated library, libglade, allows your
>   application to load this XML file and create its GUI at run time.
>   Alternatively, glade can generate source code in various languages
>   from the XML file.  See http://glade.gnome.org/
> 
> * GtkAda is a library allowing you to program (in a traditional way)
>   GTK+ interfaces in Ada.  It also contains Gate, a program that takes
>   the XML file produced by Glade and generates Ada source from it, and
>   an Ada binding to libglade.  Thus, you can use glade from Ada.  See
>   http://libre.adacore.com/

Unless I miss something, the Glade builder doesn't help you in setting 
up treeviews, for example. That's the part I hate the most, the one that 
I must do most frequently and the one in which I lose most time. Someone 
knows of some helper tool for setting up treeviews?

> * The GNAT Programming Studio is a complete IDE for Ada.  See
>   http://libre.adacore.com