Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio

[Markus E L <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

"William J Thomas" wrote:

> Randy,
>
> I'm not talking about just a programming environment. I'm talking about a 
> GUI builder, a program that allows me to develop graphically oriented 
> programs, more specifically one that would allow me to develop MS Window 
> Forms programs in the Ada Language!!!
>
> I can get Visual FORTRAN and Visual Cobol all running under MS Visual 
> Studio, all allowing me to develop much more graphically sophisticated (and 
> usable) programs than I can ever dream of with any Ada compiler that now 
> exists under the Windows environment.
>
> It's not that difficult to understand what I want, I just want Visual Ada 
> instead of C#. I want it running in the same environment, with all the Ada 
> oriented IntelliSense, with tools to help me generate Help files, and an 
> uncountable Class library all with Ada interfaces, with oodles and oodles of 
> import pragmas. I want to be able drag and drop in a PageSetupDialog and 
> watch it jump into the area under my form, I want to be able drag and drop a 
> DataGridView and be intimidated by all of the Ada event routines I'll have 
> to work with, I want to be able to drop in a FlowLayoutPanel and have it....
>
> Do you get the picture Randy, and that's another thing I want is a 
> PictureBox so I can go over to my property view and set the file path to my 
> gif file. But I want it all inside MS Visual Studio. I want it to look and 
> feel like every other language under Visual Studio except I want it to be 
> Ada.
>
> That's all.
>
> And I wouldn't be so sure about the government agency. It's either a 
> government agency or Satan himself that's keeping Ada from being a 
> successful language in the Windows scheme of things. Or it could just be 
> those evil Ada Vendors that have been blinded by the Lord because they have 
> forsaken the quest of Ada proliferation and have drifted, some to the right 
> and some to the left, none have stayed the course, none have reached the 
> promise land, all have fallen short.

Since you have so much money to spend (recently you've been talking
about around 16K $ for a license), I'm sure somebody can be found who
either extends existing builders (glade comes into mind) that they fit
your needs, or writes a completely new one. I'm sure we can talk about
such an undertaking if you get some more big spenders of your type
together.

(Though, at the moment I don't believe in that prospect).

Regards -- Markus