Ada and DirectX

Ada and DirectX

[Stephane Perret]

Hi everybody,

1. Has someone tried to interface some basic functions
of DirectX with Ada (Gnat 3.12) ?

2. Is everything about translating headers file of DirectX ?

3. Have you some short demo programs which work with Gnat-Ada ?

TIA, Stephane.

Re: Ada and DirectX

[Jeff Creem]

I have not tried this myself but starting with Direct X 7.0 Microsoft
has included a COM component for most of Direct X..So, you could
probably use the Bindcom tool from www.adapower.com
to create some nice bindings pretty quickly.

So, go get the Direct X 7.0 SDK at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/gomscom.asp?TARGET=/downloads/release.asp?Re
leaseID=16927  (It is about 128 Megs)
or order the CDrom
https://merchantgateway.cobweb.com/omega/order_entry_2.asp?ProductID=1028625
&VendorID=17

and get the COM tools from http://www.adapower.com/gnatcom/index.html


While I have not tried this I have played around a little with the bindcom
tool
and for the SDKs I've looked at it does a very nice job.

And let us know how it goes...




"Stephane Perret" <Stephane.Perret@maths.unine.ch> wrote in message
news:3973343A.4B998EF8@maths.unine.ch...
> Hi everybody,
>
> 1. Has someone tried to interface some basic functions
> of DirectX with Ada (Gnat 3.12) ?
>
> 2. Is everything about translating headers file of DirectX ?
>
> 3. Have you some short demo programs which work with Gnat-Ada ?
>
> TIA, Stephane.