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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.telebyte.nl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <6530a40c.0408240309.36f53e75@posting.google.com> <8429999a.0408241225.144c0066@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408261131.28e730bd@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1093610850 2742 134.91.1.34 (27 Aug 2004 12:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:47:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3084 Date: 2004-08-27T12:47:30+00:00 List-Id: Dan McLeran wrote: : It was GPS 2.0.0. and GtkAda 2.0.0. Also note that I am running on : Windows XP. : Some of the ABCs of IDE I thought were missing: : : 1. No code completion help. Practically evey IDE on the planet has : this (even the free AdaGIDE has it!). GLIDE has it too. I guess it is only a question of time until this is added to GPS as the information needed appears to be present in ali files, and source code browsing code is already present and active. : 2. The IDE would crash if I edited my source file outside of GPS. No crash with GPS 2.1.0w on GNU/Linux, though user notification of a changed file is not immediate when the window showing the file in GPS is not on top. (The help system works, too.) : 3. The GPS project wizard would sometimes get jacked up when I tried : to create a new project. I've seen this too, seems to have to do with directory creations (wrong directory, directory hierarchy?) : 5. The fact that the GUI builder was a separate application and not : integrated into the IDE was hokey, IMO. : : 6. The GUI widgets weren't impressive. Seems like AdaCore's main application domains have less frequently included multi-dialogued graphical desktop PC applications? Though I think that the graphical source code browser is very useful and well integrated. If only I knew how to quickly rip it out of GPS and make it usable with GLIDE/Emacs :-) : It looks like the GTK widgets : take the lowest common denominator approach to multi-platform GUI : toolkits. (If only more people had been exposed to OS/2's workplace shell or similar... ) : I was actually surprised that it wasn't alot better, considering how : much money ACT wants for supporting it. Do they want payment for supporting particular products in their toolset? -- Georg