From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f7a197ad3ba9281 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle) Subject: Re: Ada takes control of Internet Explorer Date: 1999/09/13 Message-ID: <7rj1ac$37n$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 524475922 References: <7r9gst$274o$1@news.gate.net> <7rbjpf$25pk$1@news.gate.net> Organization: US Air Force Academy, Dept of Computer Science Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Actually, a RAPID/GTK-Ada port is indeed in progress, and when it is complete (I suspect in the Oct-Dec timeframe), it will make the third port (Tcl/Tk and JVM being the first two). RAPID is a GPL'd GUI builder, and contributions are certainly welcome. One nice feature is that RAPID's user interface is designed using itself, which simplifies extending it. See ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/usafa/rapid/index.html for more info (or use the http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada mirror) --Martin In article , Brian Rogoff wrote: >On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, David Botton wrote: >> Preben Randhol wrote in message ... >have a greater reward to work ratio. Since GTK has a lot of momentum, I'd >think something like a RAPID/GTK-Ada port (which appears to be in the >works!) would be useful. Your "all Ada" framework would talk to a C >windowing API at some level, right? -- Martin C. Carlisle, Asst Prof of Computer Science, US Air Force Academy carlislem@acm.org, http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/carlisle.html DISCLAIMER: This content in no way reflects the opinions, standards or policy of the US Air Force Academy or the United States Government.