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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.80.7 with SMTP id n7mr1353077obx.10.1424294387762; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:19:47 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.28.11 with SMTP id 11mr50194qgy.21.1424294387657; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:19:47 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!hl2no18676339igb.0!news-out.google.com!c1ni7qar.1!nntp.google.com!i13no2116512qae.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:19:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8ll33c4cxuyh.8qret9lwow81.dlg@40tude.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.106.97.11; posting-account=-iT6ZQoAAAAlqBCInAc-vB6x1soT8Jhq NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.106.97.11 References: <234cdad3-5c41-4b0d-b611-01c53273cb7f@googlegroups.com> <1uhwqdsrdxacw$.jmvurilykvf4.dlg@40tude.net> <458d2dc3-ecbb-44d1-aaae-75e5fa6b23e9@googlegroups.com> <8ll33c4cxuyh.8qret9lwow81.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Get_Immediate has raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : s-wchcnv.adb:207 explicit raise From: darek Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:19:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2733 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1389509978 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24984 Date: 2015-02-18T13:19:47-08:00 List-Id: Hi Dmitry, The software I am developing is for an internal use (remote control of a PT= Z camera, video recording, and radar data acquisition subsystem). It runs o= n a very minimal Linux (and an industrial PC because of its operational tem= perature and available interfaces - http://www.comp-mall.de/DRPC-100.html).= At this moment no fancy graphics and the simplest working solution is the = way to go. Thanks for your suggestions.=20 Cheers,=20 Darek On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:36:18 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:34:34 -0800 (PST), darek wrote: >=20 > > So, are there any alternatives in Ada (GNAT) that should/may be used f= or > > this trivial task?=20 >=20 > It is not a trivial task, even in the days of teletypes, it was not. As f= or > alternatives, Ada or not, use ncurses if you have to stay console-only, o= r > a console terminal emulator, see below. >=20 > Better make a proper GUI using GTK, Qt, WinGDI or gnoga. All have Ada > interfaces, of course. >=20 > Any such library provides an abstraction level between your application a= nd > the input devices. >=20 > AFAIK, there exist some implementations of famous MS-DOS ANSI.SYS for > Win32. E.g. >=20 > https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon >=20 > Never tried it, though. >=20 > --=20 > Regards, > Dmitry A. Kazakov > http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de