Re: More GUI

[Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Jerry van Dijk wrote:

|
|> > Also stretch things a little farther into the Windows realm and find
|> some
|> > way of incorporating OCX components into the application, find a way
|> to do
|> > this (without crashing minutes after the inclusion of an OCX
|> component) and
|> > you are on your way.  That will do for a start.
|>
[snip]
|
|True, but for those people that develop for the Win32 environment only,
|there is no reason not to use OCX components. Using David Botton's GNATCOM,
|allows you to both use COM, ActiveX, OCX components from Ada, or to even
|write
|new ones.
|
|And, of course, I should put in the remark that COM technology is not NT
|specific per se.
|

One thing that can be very cool is the ability to grab hold of availabe
interfaces on the system, right from the IDE. Something like this was
discussed on yhe Dylan group, with reference to one Dylan impl. (don't
recall which). The poster said something along the lines of "WOW! I just
asked for XML and got the interface to the MS DLL which I could then use."

Maybe something like this (using David's important contributions, of
course) could be integrated into one of the IDEs. (GIDE which seems to be
PC-centric or GLIDE).

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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