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Subject: Re: Ann: Ada-Win32 bindings
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On Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 1:38:13 AM UTC+10, Aurele Vitali wrote:
> Good job, but A bit late. In an effort to get away from Win32ada, I wrote my own bindings. But everything does seems to check out!

Hi Aurele

Thanks for your response, It seems that Dmitry, yourself and I were equally
frustrated with the lack of a feature rich API binding to Win32 and ended
up writing our own (via cherry picking off the features we needed for our
specific needs/purposes)

This is somewhat why this project originated! In that I was frustrated with
having to manually go thru MS C/C++ header files to get the correct definition
of an enum/record/function/procedure etc... and translating that to Ada, I
wanted / needed a better solution!

I fully acknowledge everyone has different needs (wrt usage of the Win32 API)
and that a binding either thin or thick should not focus on a specific area
of the API such as the GUI components. and try and provide the core functions
that the Win32 API provides (along with providing type safety thru a thicker
binding ! as Randy has already mentioned) To this end, I believe this binding
is the first step in achieving that goal.

Thanks Alex