Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) 7.7

Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) 7.7

[leonid.dulman]

VAD 7.7 Common description.
1. VAD ( Visual Ada Developer ) is a Tcl/Tk oriented Ada-2012(TCL) GUI builder 
portable to difference platforms, such as Windows NT/Vista/7,Unix(Linux),eComStation(Os/2) and Mac.
You may use it as IDE for any Ada (C,C++,TCL) project.
VAD generated ada sources, you may compile and build executable or generate TCL script to interpritate with Tcl/Tk
VAD 7.7 was tested in Windows  32bit/64bit  and Linux x86-64  Debian 7.3

2. Used software 

GNAT GPL 2013 Ada-12 compiler (or any others 95, 2005 or 2012 )

TCL/TK 8.5.x http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/
TCL/TK 8.6.x http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/ 
From vertion tcl/tk 8.5. ActiveState distribution includes many of VAD used 
packages (Itcl,Img,Tktable,BWidgets,Tkhtml and so on). 

You may choice needed version in link time. (I recommend to work with 8.6)

TASH 8.02 by Terry J. Westley http://tash.calspan.com/ 
IMG 1.3 package by Jan Nijtmans <Jan.Nijtmans@wxs.nl>. 
Icons 1.2 by Adrian Davis (adrian@satisoft.com) 
Help System ( Html browser from Editors and Parsers menu) by Andrei A. Gratchev <grand@midc.miem.edu.ru> 
TkPaint - a simple Image Editor http://www.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html with pdf and eps document formats support 
RAPID-1 By Martin Carlisle 
McListbox,mcombobox by Bryan Oakley <oakley@channelpoint.com> 
http://purl.oclc.org/net/oakley/tcl/mclistbox/index.html 
Toplevelmanager(window::or) by Mark G. Saye 
Tktable by Jeff Hobs <jeff.hobbs@acm.org>  http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/capp/ 

FTP_library by Stefen Traeger <Steffen.Traeger@t-online.de> http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger 

Csh1.0 package by Mohamed Baccar http: //members.aol.com/~mbaccar/pub/csh10.zip 
Xterm button initialize xterminal 
Snack 2.4 multimaedia sound by Kare Sjolander http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/ 
BLT 3.0 ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt 
Itcl 4.0 http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm 
Tix 8.5 Tix Tcl/Tk extension 
QuickTimeTcl 3.0 multimedia movie (Quick Time for Windows and Mac) by Mats Bengtsson and Bruce O'Neel 
Tclgtk Gtk widget collection on Tcl http://tcl-gtk.sourceforge.net. 
Oratcl 4.4 Oracle connection (Oracle 9i,Oracle 10i support) http://oratcl.sourceforge.net 
Optcl 3.0 - conversion between Tcl objects and COM types by Farzad Pezeshkpour (Windows only) 
OpenGL support packages :
Tkogl OpenGL extension by Claudio Esperanca  http://aquarius.lcg.ufrj.br/~esperanc/tkogl.html 
tcl3d Tcl/Tk OpenGL Wrapper 
VTK 5.x,6.x OpenGL extension by Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen  http://public.kitware.com/VTK/files 
vtkGUI 0.1 by Silvano Imboden  http://visit.cineca.it/vtkGUI 
Tkhtml 3.0 package by Dan Kennedy  (last alpha 16 version has problems in tcl/tk 8.6b2.
      Install it only after test hv3.tcl script works !!!).
Fve Free text editor by Kazuo Sasagawa 
Hex A simple Hex Editor by George Peter Staplin 
August Free HTML editor by Johan Bengtsson 
ASED Tcl/Tk IDE by Andreas Sievers 
Dom, TclXML XML parser http://www.zveno.com 
Whiteboard 0.94.3 Image and Media Viewer by Mats Behgtsson 
TkMC File manager by Grigoriy Abramov 
IDL_To_Ada_Translator by Scott R. Bennet http://www.mitre.org 
TCL/TK XML intelligence Visual Editor by Alexander V.Dederer  http://tkxmlive.sourceforge.net 
TCL/TK InstallJammer Multiplatform Installer http://www.installjammer.com/ 

VAD is available from http://users1.jabry.com/adastudio/index.html 
Leonid 

Re: Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) 7.7

[pincerfae]

this sounds wonderful...unfortunately, I could never get it to work properly...