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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66123ca9887d5001,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-14 18:31:16 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!hub.org!hub.org!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Chris Miller Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: GNATCOM & Microsoft VB Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:22:10 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <93tmsd$dr5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.228.129.11 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 15 02:22:10 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 RYD-PRX1, 1.1 proxy.cache.telstra.net (NetCache 4.1R6), 1.0 x70.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 203.53.215.253, 165.228.129.11 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDchrismil Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4013 Date: 2001-01-15T02:22:10+00:00 List-Id: We are playing with ideas here for a new GUI front end to an existing Ada project. Many options. However one that is interesting is to write the front end GUI part using MS Visual Basic (or Visual Studio, which is VB + Visual everything else), generate a COM interface to the GUI components and then use GNATCOM to generate Ada 95 bindings to the COM object. Result - Microsoft front end, existing Ada 95 back end. Looks like a PC application, runs on a PC. If it needs to be distributed we move to COM+ with minimal (?) change. I note GNATCOM already has AdatoVB and VBtoAda samples. Has anyone else done this ?. Is it a good idea ?. Environment would be PC / GNAT 3.13 / Ada 95 / MS Windows Nt4 or 2K / GNATCOM 1.3p. Chris Miller chrismil at ozemail dot com dot au 15/01/2001 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/