Re: Migrating to Ada : a mini success story

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2010-02-15, Hibou57 <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:50:35 +0100, Simon Clubley  
><clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> a �crit:
>> The forms toolkit is actually quite advanced given it's character cell
>> requirements, containing the ability to define a form in terms of fields
>> containing different types of data (alpha, numeric, dates, etc) and
>> containing support for callback routines for custom field level  
>> validation.
>>
>> I would love to find an open source equivalent of the forms and ISAM
>> toolkits which could be called from Ada.
> Does this toolkit comes with formally and cleanly documented  
> specifications ?
>

No.

The forms toolkit is heavily documented at API level in Synergex supplied
documentation, but that documentation is not freely available online and
is only supplied as part of a purchase so for various reasons making that
documentation available online is absolutely _NOT_ a viable option. Sorry.

Also, this documentation details how to use the library, but it's not
a design document.

The ISAM library implements a multiple and segmented key ISAM file
structure. Once again, the documentation is about using it, not about how
it's implemented internally.

Simon.

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