Re: ObjectAda Libraries

[jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)]

In article <19971031212700.QAA03641@ladder02.news.aol.com> fogartys@aol.com writes:

>     For example, even though it's not a required element of the language, I
> would expect there to be a library package named perhaps, TRIG_FUNCTIONS,

Actually, this is required by the language, to find the proper package,
look it up in the on-line Reference Manual that comes with OA.

>     Also, although I didn't get the more expensive professional edition that
> includes the GUI (Graphic User Interface) Builder, my understanding was that I
> could still build GUI's in the personal edition by typing in all the code by
> hand.  Yet in the help features and courseware I have not found any hint of
> packages that I could "with" into my program to create even simple buttons or
> do basic pixel manipulation within a window.

This has nothing to do with Ada but with Windows programming.

The Windows API (Win32) itself is documented in the online documentation
(Help, Win32). To learn how to program Windows application you need to
learn this from some Windows programming book, e.g. Petzold.

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