Re: GNAT Question

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

I didn't say the BotF interface was great i just said it was my first
experience with pie menus.  They seem much better than linear menus.

Kah'plagh is Klingon for 'goodbye' or 'hello' or something Klingon.  I was
*trying* to be funny. Unsuccessfully i might add


Chris Campbell


p.s. BotF had a bad inteface but what about New Worlds? -- I'm ashamed to
have that in my house.  Armada is good except that it don't like my Athlon,
bummer!




"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:l0Rt6.2077$94.3148@www.newsranger.com...
> In article <qzQt6.14157$Q4.2630301@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
chris.danx
> says...
> >
> >One thing i think we're going to implement is pie-menus.  Has anyone
> >implemented them in Ada?  I've only used one pie-menu system in Birth of
the
> >Federation -- maybe we could call the OS 'Kirk' or 'Mad Womanizing
>
> After the reception that BotF's interface got, I'm amazed that anyone is
willing
> to repeat any part of it.
>
> As for hand-writing widgets and directly accessing disks, Ada really
shouldn't
> be an issue. There's no super-duper featue in C that Ada doesn't have an
analog
> to, and anything in an external C library can be accessed via a "pragma
import
> (C,...)". The biggest issue is typcially deciphering complex C macros.
>
> >-- anyone know the proper reply to 'Live long and prosper'.  I've
forgotten
> >but i think it's 'Kah'plagh'.
> If that's the rough Vulcan equivalent to "Up your nose with a rubber hose,
> Kotter", then its probably about right. :-)
>
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