Re: Writing a Windows/Mac app in Ada

[Mike Silva <snarflemike@yahoo.com>]

On May 11, 2:09 am, Vadim Godunko <vgodu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 10, 10:34 pm, Mike Silva <snarflem...@yahoo.com> wrote:> I have a commercial application I have prototyped in C++ on Windows,
> > and I am very tempted to write it fresh (as per Fred Brooks) in Ada at
> > the same time I am extending it to Mac (OS X).  But I can only justify
> > this if the obstacles will be at a minium, whatever that might mean in
> > practice.  This will be a business-flavored app with no multimedia but
> > with typical screen controls and lots of printing (with associated
> > WYSIWYG on the screen).  So my questions are, what libraries/
> > frameworks would allow me to share the most code between Windows and
> > Mac versions, and be easiest to pick up.
>
> You may use QtAda for GUI development. QtAda application doesn't needs
> to have any platform specific code and works on Mac OS X, Windows and
> most UNIX (including Linux). See:
>
> http://www.qtada.com/

Thanks, I'll definitely look into that.

Mike