Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

"Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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> Steve wrote:
> .
>> Most of the applications I work on have to do with sawmill automation.
>> Scanning logs at various stages of processing and optimizing the
>> breakdown
>> decisions and process.  The application requires a lot of
>> configuration to
>> describe the machinery, the products being produced, and rules on how
>> to cut
>> things.  There are dozens of dialogs in the system.  Trying to
>> maintain
>> these using hand coded windows is just plain silly.  Parts of the
>> system are
>> very dynamic... displaying 3d images of material being processed,
>> diagnostic
>> information, etc.
>
> I realize this question is a bit OT, but are you doing these apps in
> Ada?

We were doing the optimization part of the software in Ada.  Most of the GUI 
was developed in Delphi.  If there had been a decent GUI development system 
for Ada, we would have used it.  The need for multiple development platforms 
is IMHO one of the reasons that our new generation of software does not 
include Ada.

Steve

>
> - Ed