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From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Graphical user interface in Unix?
Date: 1998/07/31
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Jorgen.Pettersson@saab.se wrote:

" Hello,
  I am a project manager for a project developing an Ada95-application
  and I am trying to find the best alternative to connect a graphical
  user interface to the Ada95-application.
  
  I would appreciate if someone could share their experience with me
  in this area."


Motif is ok _if_ you have a group of people who understand C/Ada
interactions very well (i.e. know how to use the Interfaces.C.* packages
well), and if you take the time to provide some sort of support for
various features. For example i have written a package to make using
callbacks a lot easier/safer than normal. 

The existing (public) bindings leave a lot to be desired when it comes to
mapping anonymous C enumeration types to ada enumeration types, rather
than the much simpler and equivalent numeric constants.


Dale