From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 21 Jul 93 09:27:48 GMT From: 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) Subject: Re: X-Windows binding for Ada Message-ID: List-Id: In article , 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?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andre Spiegel University of Stuttgart, Germany Software Engineering Department e-mail: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------