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From: David Gressett <gresset1@airmail.spam>
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Subject: Re: What do I need to write a Windows program with Ada?
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:23:38 -0500, "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
wrote:


>I recommend GWindows for Win32 - http://www.adapower.com/gwindows, see
>http://www.adapower.com/gwindows/user_guide.html for a full tutorial. If you
>can program Ada, you already know how to write a Windows program :-)
>
GWindows is very nice - the GUI interface stuff works very well, but
the database access stuff is incomplete and lacks documentation. It is
a very good start, but needs more work. (I'll be happy to contribute,
as I very much need something like this)

Support for printing is a bit weak as well. It works, but needs to
have some higher-level abstractions added to make it really useful.

Something analogous to the qprinter package for Visual Basic printing
would be very nice. See
www.qbdsoftware.co.uk/moth/qprinter/

qprinter is a great idea but suffers horribly from the limitations and
weaknesses of VB. A similar package for GWindows would be very useful
and would help to draw VB6 programmers to Ada rather than to
VB.NET.(Again, I would be happy to help with this.)

Another weakness of GWindows is that the mailing list where users can
go to help each other seems to be nonfunctional.