From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:32:50 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2011-10-29T17:32:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j8hdc2$kqf$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2ipn7pyo8.fsf@pushface.org
> I'd have thought it was more a problem of the bindings being thin?
The original Petzold "Programming Windows" book shows a "Hello, Windows!"
program - it's two pages long. Thick bindings like Claw, and "languages"
like Python, and of course personal libraries, are what made it practical
to code for Windows.
> Making thick bindings to a moving target is quite a challenge, of course.
In successive versions of the Google Earth API, they changed one
parameter of a function (GetPointOnTerrainFromScreenCoords) from a pointer
to a safearray to a pointer to a terrain point. That may be aesthetically
nicer, but it breaks existing code. I'm told that in one version of the
Android OS angles are clockwise from North while in another version they
are counterclockwise from East. Google's software is not a very solid
foundation on which to build a binding.
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2011-10-27 1:18 Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 7:12 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2011-10-28 12:51 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:50 ` Jeffrey Creem
2011-10-28 13:01 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:58 ` Brian Drummond
2011-10-28 1:37 ` Shark8
2011-10-28 12:22 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 13:37 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 14:46 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 20:47 ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 21:59 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30 3:51 ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30 7:20 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30 10:56 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-30 17:32 ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 15:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-29 16:09 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-29 17:32 ` tmoran [this message]
2011-10-30 11:38 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 20:51 ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30 11:32 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-31 22:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-01 8:41 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-01 9:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-02 15:55 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 17:37 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-08 3:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-03 0:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-03 11:36 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-03 15:24 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-03 18:43 ` Pascal Obry
2011-11-03 22:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-04 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-04 12:18 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-04 15:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-05 16:56 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-01 9:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 16:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 17:38 ` Simon Wright
2011-11-10 17:25 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-27 15:18 ` mockturtle
2011-11-28 22:35 ` Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! (but music player failure) Stephen Leake
2011-11-29 11:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-30 3:33 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-30 18:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
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