Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) version 5.4 Leonid Dulman

Announce: Visual Ada Developer (VAD) version 5.4 Leonid Dulman

[Leonid]

  V I S U A L  A D A   D E V E L O P E R  (VAD) version 5.4

    VAD ( Visual Ada Developer ) is a tcl/tk oriented Ada-95 GUI builder
which portable to difference platforms, such as Windows 
NT/9x,Unix(Linux),
Mac  and OS/2.

  What's new

 1. From Build menu you may
    GENERATE script for compiling and building executable for project

 2. NEW package Rcom.Draw  for easy drawing in canvas
    lines, ovals, rectangles, texts, ...  (draw sample)

 3. NEW package Adagraph for more powerfull graphic operations  (adagr 
sample)

 4. New version of QuickimeTcl 3.0 is available to tcl/tk 8.3/8.4

 5. Powerfull Tktable package support ( you may easy build 2D tables from
    ADD WIDGETS page

 6. CScrollbar (more nice scrollbar ADD WIDGETS page)

 7. Barchart ,Graph widgets from BLT package
    ADD WIDGETS page

 8. New disp(layout) setwidget for BWidgets (such as ScrollableFrame)

 9. Help F1 for selected widget (mouse on widget gif)

 VAD 5.4 has four  realization  for tcl/tk 8.0.x,for tcl/tk 8.2.3,tcl/tk 
8.3.1
     and for tcl/tk 8.4a2 (last version).

   This is a version 5.4  and I hope it will be useful for Ada 
programmers
 and easy in work.
   This is an effective way to build gui oriented system independent
applications  in pure ADA-95.

    VAD 5.4 supports many of image formats such as

BMP, XBM, XPM, GIF (with transparency), PNG, JPEG, TIFF and
postscript.  To use it you need to load Img1.2 package

 1. Base  TCL/TK widgets

 toplevel frame button radiobutton checkbutton menubutton label entry
 listbox canvas message menu item scrollbox scale text

 2. BWidgets

Button Label Entry ListBox
ArrowButton ProgressBar MainFrame LabelFrame LabelEntry TitleFrame
Dialog ScrolledWindow PanedWindow ButtonBox NoteBook (Page) SpinBox
Tree MessageDlg ProgressDlg ScrollableFrame ScrollView PagesManager
PasswdDlg

3. Widgets from  Bryan Oakley

combobox mclistBox

4. Direct executable Tcl script

TclScript

5. table widget from Tktable package

6. cscrollbar widget

7. graph, barchart widgets from BLT package

 VAD 5.4 has internal tcl packages support from Packages menu and
 internal text editor (Fve) , HTML editor (August) , XML parser
 and IDL(corba) to Ada-95 translator

 If you have instaled Oratcl 2.6(2.7,3.0) package and loaded it, you may
directly work with Oracle server from Oracle menu or DBNavigator.

 VAD 5.4 is available in http://members.xoom.com/ldulman/vad.htm

 You may dowload sources vad54scr.zip, vadhlp.zip, 
adahlp.zip,vad54tcl.zip,
                 vadsmp.zip,adastyle.zip,philosophers.zip,vad50idl.zip.
                 and binaries vad54win.zip, pkg83win.zip tcl84win.zip 
(WINDOWS 9x/NT)
                              vad54lin.zip, pkg83lin.zip tcl84lin.zip 
(OpenLinux 2.x,RedHat 7.x)

  Leonid Dulman(dulman@attglobal.net)