From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fdc68dbaaef5fbc9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-07 22:19:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: graphics in ada References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:19:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.187 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1065590382 63.184.9.187 (Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:19:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:19:42 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:437 Date: 2003-10-08T05:19:42+00:00 List-Id: Andrew wrote: > When I was taking ada cources in college (Ada88 if i remember correctly) > my professor said that graphics were not possible in Ada. Has this > changed? If so to what degree? I wrote packages to do graphics under DOS in Ada in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so either your professor didn't know what he was talking about (not uncommon where Ada was concerned) or you misunderstood him. I worked on one project in which the SW was developed on a Unix machine for a DOS target, and the terminals we used on the Unix machine didn't have graphics capabilities, so we were unable to include graphics in the SW. The project manager interpreted this as "you can't do graphics in Ada," but he was just stupid. For very simple graphics under Win32, you can use AdaGraph, in addition to the other fine libraries mentioned in this thread. -- Jeff Carter "Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped." Blazing Saddles 35