From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>
Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:44:57 GMT
Date: 2002-09-09T07:44:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwupva9on.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cb4ba455.0209051616.16c7028e@posting.google.com
tatebll@aol.com (Bill Tate) writes:
> I've been looking for any excuse to build an application in Ada -
> specifically a GIS program with a business analysis focus (the
> commercial alternatives are expensive, do not fit my particular needs
> & they are not written in Ada - the latter being a non-starter with me
> anyway).
<snip>
> As far as I can determine thus far, the GtkAda.Canvas package offers
> some nice features already built-in and the overall GtkAda package
> appears to be quite comprehensive. My preference is avoid going the
> OpenGL route if at all possible.
>
What's wrong with OpenGL? It has an Ada interface, and is well
supported both on Windows and Unix. With a modern graphics card, the
performance is very good.
> If anyone has any thoughts, recommendation and/or reservations, etc.,
> I would greatly welcome any feedback. Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 0:16 Recommendations:GIS program in Ada Bill Tate
2002-09-06 3:16 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-09-06 4:53 ` Anders Wirzenius
2002-09-06 8:30 ` Reinert Korsnes
2002-09-06 13:09 ` Bill Tate
2002-09-06 22:31 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-09-07 10:40 ` Bill Tate
2002-09-07 2:45 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-09-07 17:20 ` Bill Tate
2002-09-09 7:44 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2002-09-09 16:23 ` Bill Tate
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