Ann: Visual Ada Developer VAD 7.3

[Leonid Dulman <leonid.dulman@gmail.com>]

Visual Ada Developer (VAD) 7.3 is now available http://users1.jabry.com/adastudio/index.html


VAD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.


VAD is distributed in the hope, that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty

of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

VAD 7.3 Common description.

1. VAD ( Visual Ada Developer ) is a Tcl/Tk oriented Ada-95(TCL) GUI
builder

portable to difference platforms, such as Windows NT/Vista/7,Unix
(Linux), and Mac.

You may use it as IDE for any Ada-95(C,C++,TCL) project.

VAD generated ada sources, you may compile and build executable or
generate TCL script to interpritate with Tcl/Tk

VAD 7.3 was tested in Windows  32bit and  64bit and Linux x86-64
Kubuntu 9.10

2. Used software

GNAT GPL 2009 Ada-05 compiler (or any others)

TCL/TK 8.5.x http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/

TCL/TK 8.6.x http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/

W A R N I N G ! VAD 7.3 has two realization

for tcl/tk 8.5.x and tcl/tk 8.6.x , you need to install and test tcl/
tk at first.

From vertion tcl/tk 8.5.0.1 ActiveState distribution includes many of
VAD used

packages (Itcl,Img,Tktable,BWidgets,Tkhtml and so on).

You may choice needed version in link time. (I recommend to work with
8.5)

TASH 8.02 by Terry J. Westley http://tash.calspan.com/

IMG 1.3 package by Jan Nijtmans <Jan.Nijtmans@wxs.nl>.

Icons 1.2 by Adrian Davis (adrian@satisoft.com)

Help System ( Html browser from Editors and Parsers menu) by Andrei A.
Gratchev <grand@midc.miem.edu.ru>

TkPaint - a simple Image Editor http://www.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html
with pdf and eps document formats support

RAPID-1 By Martin Carlisle

BWIDGETS 1.8.0 tk extension http://www.unifix-online.com/BWidget

McListbox,mcombobox by Bryan Oakley <oakley@channelpoint.com>

http://purl.oclc.org/net/oakley/tcl/mclistbox/index.html

Toplevelmanager(window::or) by Mark G. Saye

Tktable by Jeff Hobs <jeff.hobbs@acm.org>

http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/capp/

FTP_library by Stefen Traeger <Steffen.Traeger@t-online.de>

http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger

Csh1.0 package by Mohamed Baccar

http: //members.aol.com/~mbaccar/pub/csh10.zip

Xterm button initialize xterminal

Snack 2.4 multimaedia sound by Kare Sjolander

http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

BLT 3.0 ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt

Itcl 4.0 http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm


Tix 8.5 Tix Tcl/Tk extension


QuickTimeTcl 3.0 multimedia movie (Quick Time for Windows and Mac) by
Mats Bengtsson and Bruce O'Neel

MPlayerTcl 0.0.2 multimedia movie (Quick Time, Divx, mpeg for Unix) by
Cyril Barabto   http://mplayertcl.sourceforge.net

Tclgtk Gtk widget collection on Tcl http://tcl-gtk.sourceforge.net.

Oratcl 4.4 Oracle connection (Oracle 9i,Oracle 10i support)
http://oratcl.sourceforge.net

XBit 4.01 Multimedia extension by Chengye Mao  http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/soft.html

Optcl 3.0 - conversion between Tcl objects and COM types by Farzad
Pezeshkpour (Windows only)

OpenGL support packages :

Tkogl OpenGL extension by Claudio Esperanca  http://aquarius.lcg.ufrj.br/~esperanc/tkogl.html

tcl3d Tcl/Tk OpenGL Wrapper

VTK 5.x OpenGL extension by Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
http://public.kitware.com/VTK/files
If have problems to build it from source, tell me know and I will send
ready to use binaries as tcl/tk packages.

vtkGUI 0.1 by Silvano Imboden  http://visit.cineca.it/vtkGUI

Tkhtml 3.0 package by Dan Kennedy  (last alpha 16 version has problems
in tcl/tk 8.6b1.
      Install it only after test hv3.tcl script works !!!).

Fve Free text editor by Kazuo Sasagawa

Hex A simple Hex Editor by George Peter Staplin

August Free HTML editor by Johan Bengtsson

ASED Tcl/Tk IDE by Andreas Sievers

Dom, TclXML XML parser http://www.zveno.com

Whiteboard 0.94.3 Image and Media Viewer by Mats Behgtsson

TkMC File manager by Grigoriy Abramov

IDL_To_Ada_Translator by Scott R. Bennet http://www.mitre.org

TCL/TK XML intelligence Visual Editor by Alexander V.Dederer
http://tkxmlive.sourceforge.net

TCL/TK InstallJammer Multiplatform Installer http://www.installjammer.com/

W A R N I N G ! Many of tcl/tk packages were tested for TCL/TK 8.5 and
8.6 in Windows and x86-64 Linux,
You may download they from my site  http://users1.Jabry.com/adastudio/index.html

Leonid (leonid_dulman@yahoo.co.uk)