Re: GUI with Ada?

[Leonid Dulman <leonid.dulman@gmail.com>]

On Dec 18, 10:44 pm, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I have not kept up with Ada for sometime. I was wondering, if someone wants
> to develop a simple GUI (plots, menus, buttons, graphs, etc..) using Ada,
> and have the code compile to a .exe on windows and linux, which is the
> current most popular software pieces needed for the GUI?
>
> Assuming I will be using GNAT. Which gcc version should I be using these
> days which has the latest Ada support in it? Should I be using gcc directly
> for Ada programming these days, or use GNAT GPL 2009 version from Libre web
> sitehttp://libre.adacore.com/libre/?
>
> I know there are few choices for the GUI, and just wanted to check what is
> the "best" choice do you think for that.  One with a GUI builder would be
> nice (i.e. where one can pick the components and lay them out to design the
> interface). This will be an school program, nothing commercial. I wanted to
> try to write some basic finite element code in Ada, but need a GUI part for
> the simulation part.
>
> Thanks,
> --Nasser

You can try Visual Ada Developer VAD 7.3 http://users1.jabry.com/adastudio/index.html
Leonid (leonid_dulman@yahoo.co.uk)