Re: GNATCOM & Microsoft VB

["Hennie" <hennieodendaal@nowhere.com>]

I'm doing it via Delphi.

No Dll hell of VB and funny bugs.

Delphi is close to Ada.

Tons of free components in Delphi.

Chris Miller <chrismil@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>
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