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From: "Paul Hussein" <paul.hussein@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Portable GUI in ADA ?
Date: 1999/07/01
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How about using Java for GUI and Ada95. There is a good tool here to help
you connect
http://www.ainslie-software.com/

 ADAJNI

Peter Milliken <peter.milliken@boeing.com> wrote in message
news:3772A63C.E3DD1C2F@boeing.com...
> Well, if Tash and Tcl/Tk don't strike your fancy by all means try
> wxWindows(?) you can "bind" Ada95 to any other language, especially C and
> C++. You'll just have to create your own bindings to the GUI (which is
> exactly what Tash does for Tcl/Tk, so this will give you an idea of the
> amount of work involved :-)).
>
> There are tools in the Tcl/Tk world that produce stand-a-lone executables,
> have you thought about calling your Ada code from within Tcl/Tk and then
> using one of these "compilers" to generate the executable? I have never
done
> it but it shouldn't be too hard given that Tcl/Tk is meant to be extended
by
> the use of C, which means Ada95 can be used as well. Have a close read of
> the LRM and GNAT documentation and you will see how Ada95 interfaces to
> other languages. Then search dejanews for articles in the Ada newsgroup on
> interfacing to C++ (name mangling in C++ seems to cause problems, I have
> never tried it myself).
>
> Personally I think persevering with the Tcl/Tk route is better, at least
> Tash provides a set of thick/thin bindings as a good starting point.
>
> Peter
>
> Jos De Laender wrote:
>
> >     Gentlemen,
> >
> >     I was looking for nearly free Gui (with some elementary Gui building
> > assistance) in Ada95. Portability between Windows and Motif is also a
> > concern.
> >
> >     This very group helped me with some pointers , but finally my quest
> > ended with Tash+Rapid as the only candidate. It seems however a very
> > indirect approach to me (needing a tcl/tk interpreter to which ada hooks
> > in then) and my _feeling_ (sorry for that ;-) ) is that it is not a nice
> > and clean approach.
> >
> >     I was wondering if something like wxWindows (C/C++) could not be
> > ported or bound somehow to Ada95 ? Maybe it is not the cleanest program
> > around neither, but it gives at least the possibility to produce
> > standalone programs. Did someone try this already ? Would it be worth
> > the effort ?
> >
> >     All comments, including those to correct my feeling ;-) , are
> > welcome.
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >
> >     Jos (only speaking for himself, not for his company)
>