Re: X-Windows binding for Ada

[cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!n ews.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!ifi!spiegel@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Andre Spiegel)]

In article <CAFKoH.Bp5@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, 
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:

> It says in the FAQ that an X binding is available for free from the STARS
> Repository, by ftp to source.asset.com.
>
> However, although source.asset.com does ftp, it does not seem to be
> anonymous (i.e. the usual logins 'anonymous', 'ftp' and 'guest' do not seem
> to work).
>
> Please can someone tell mw what to do, or whether this binding can be
> obtained from somewhere else, or whether there are other P.D. bindings that
> I should be looking at.

I have been looking around for X/Ada bindings for quite some time, and
also came across a STARS binding which covers Xlib/Xt/Motif. I'm
not sure from where I got it, but I could send you my copy if you
can't find it anywhere.

Note, however, that this is rather old software. The README file says
it has been developed for Motif 1.0.1, and the Xlib/Xt part might well
be based on X11R2. As the FAQ puts it: ``This implementation had
many bugs, but it was there, and it was free.''

We recently got another Xlib/Xt/Motif binding with our DEC Ada 1.1
compiler, which implements X11R4 / Motif 1.1. In the source files it
says that redistribution and use in source and binary forms are
permitted, provided that copyright notice is not deleted, etc. We
haven't been using this binding so far, only compiled the example
programs, which worked without any problems. It shouldn't be too much
work to port it to other compilers, I believe, and this would probably
be greatly appreciated by the Ada community... 

By the way, I haven't found this binding mentioned in *any* FAQ or AJPO
binding list. 

Contact me via email, if you (or anyone else) is interested in the
software. (Hope I'm not annoying Digital by offering this. Why isn't it
being made available on some ftp host, anyway? Or maybe it is already?)

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Andre Spiegel                         University of Stuttgart, Germany
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