Re: Ada and WIMPs

[tmoran@bix.com]

>However, I'd like to take the plunge and write apps for a variety of
>windowing systems - particularly WinNT and KDE (under Linux).

  There are several Ada-Windows bindings, ranging from the very
thin like Win32Ada to the very thick like Claw, with differing
amounts of coverage of the Windows API, and of course with
differing prices, documentation, rates of enhancement, and support.
Take a look at www.adapower.com for a list.  BTW, the full Claw is
listed there under "commercial", implying, correctly, that it costs
money.  But there's an "introductory" or "student" version free for
the downloading at www.rrsoftware.com   Also at that web site, see
the paper "CLAW, a High Level, Portable, Ada 95 Binding for
Microsoft Windows" (yours truly as co-author) for a discussion on
approaches to using Ada with Windows.  Also at adapower, there's my
simple Windows graphical version of Mike Feldman's Dining
Philosophers, with images of several well known Ada gurus as the
philosophers.

>screen painter for Ada, which will generate the low-level code,
  There are also several GUI builders around which do just that.
Various compiler vendors offer them, and there's one that
generates Claw calls and thus works with any compiler.