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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6cb7a2e1898c3424 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Ada and WIMPs Date: 2000/03/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 594173193 References: <38C3DCE4.DBD7A69E@ttoolsbase.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 952416889 206.170.2.205 (Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:14:49 PST) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:14:49 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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.