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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,11d39408e66ea211 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-20 15:10:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <7wLt6.19470$bL.1855137@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: GNAT Question X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:03:28 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.120.177 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 985129400 213.104.120.177 (Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:03:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:03:20 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5942 Date: 2001-03-20T23:03:28+00:00 List-Id: 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" wrote in message news:l0Rt6.2077$94.3148@www.newsranger.com... > In article , 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. :-) > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com