Re: Ada / MS WinCE

[Rob Veenker <veenker@xs4all.nl>]

Pascal Obry wrote:

> Rob,
> 
>> Just forgot to mention that GNATPro for .Net and A# also run on the .Net
>> compact framework for WinCE! I even have Ada running on my cell phone :-)
> 
> Would probably be nice to write a clear tutorial on how to do a Hello
> World with Ada with the compact framework on a cell phone!
> 
> Pascal.
> 

There already exists a tutorial on A# for PDA's, last held at SigAda 2006.
The only change for cell phones is that cell phones have a limited UI.
You could however still use the M$ Visual studio (C#) to build the gui so
you know that part is ok and add Ada code in a .Net assembly.
For deployment all you need to do is copy the A# runtime libraries onto your
cell phone and add your own application assembly.

Not too much magic here :-)

To keep it all in Ada, you can probably also use Rapid for the gui part but
I am not sure all the calls performed by rapid are supported in the compact
framework.

Rob