Re: Looking for Ada Bindings

[bachww@motcid.UUCP (Bud Bach)]

stluka@software.org (Fred Stluka) writes:

>In article <6291@trantor.harris-atd.com> shebert@jaguar.ess.harris.com (Steve Hebert) writes:
>> I am looking for information on bindings between Ada and the following
>> products.
>>  X, Motif,   and Open-Look
>> 
>> Preferable for  DEC  equipment,  but information for other platforms is
>> also welcome.

>VAX Ada comes with bindings to Xlib.

>--Fred
 
Hi Steve, This is true however many people have complained
about the DEC Ada X bindings because they are (were?) system dependent
and did not use good abstractions in the interface.  

While working for SPS in Indialantic, FL, I did a partial port of the
SAIC X/Ada bindings to VAX Ada.  With this binding, we were able to
port a large (120K wc LOC) inteactive information processing system
from a Sun 3/60 with the MIT Xlib and Verdix to a VAXStation II with
DECWindows and VAX Ada with zero changes.  I was impressed.

Mark Nelson at SAIC received these updates but I don't think they made
it into the distribution.  You may want to follow up with SPS
(info@sps.com) or with Mark (uunet!seismo!esosun!mark).

-- Bud


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