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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: New to ada, what is gb?
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:48:38 -0700 (PDT), Josiah Smith
<jsmith613@gatech.edu> declaimed the following:

>I'm new to ada and I can't figure out what gb is.  As used here: http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/200204_Beard_Image_Viewer_Window.Ada
>It obviously has something to do with the GUI, but whenever I build, the compiler searches for a gb.ads file.  Is gb build into the compiler or do I need to download a library from somewhere?  (I'm using GPS 2017) Thanks

	Going up one level ( http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/ ) and then down
through the 2001-2002 program gives (
http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/200204.html )

	What is not clear (to me) is if the referenced "GUI Builder" was part
of ObjectAda itself, or a custom library created by the presenter for use
with ObjectAda. {addendum: subsequent Google indicates that the GUI Builder
was part of the Professional level of ObjectAda -- see the presentation
text at http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/200204_Frank_Beard_Notes.html ;
from a quick glimpse it almost looks like "gb" is the output from the GUI
Bulder containing all the code for rendering the application window/widgets
as defined graphically }

	In either event, I would suspect you will have to decide upon a GUI
toolkit binding, and then rewrite the application practically from scratch
(or somehow recreate the functions of the gb module using your selected
toolkit binding and /then/ build the application using your new look-alike
module).
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