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=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FAKE_REPLY_C, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,899b6cda699de8ba X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-18 17:25:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What do I need to write a Windows program with Ada? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:24:03 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1048037114 9357 137.194.161.2 (19 Mar 2003 01:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:25:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-pair-Authenticated: 216.77.220.202 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35489 Date: 2003-03-18T20:24:03-05:00 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gressett" > GWindows is very nice - the GUI interface stuff works very well, but > the database access stuff is incomplete and lacks documentation. It is > a very good start, but needs more work. (I'll be happy to contribute, > as I very much need something like this) The key to the database stuff is knowing ADO. The GWindows database support is just glue to that. I hope to provide more information on using it in the near future and additional support in GWindows itself. > Support for printing is a bit weak as well. It works, but needs to > have some higher-level abstractions added to make it really useful. True, it is currently just slighlty thicker than the OS APIs. > Something analogous to the qprinter package for Visual Basic printing > would be very nice. See > www.qbdsoftware.co.uk/moth/qprinter/ > > qprinter is a great idea but suffers horribly from the limitations and > weaknesses of VB. A similar package for GWindows would be very useful > and would help to draw VB6 programmers to Ada rather than to > VB.NET.(Again, I would be happy to help with this.) Thank you for the link, I'll take a good look. From what I have read so far you should be able to use QPrinter2 with GWindows with out a problem since it is an ActiveX dll. I'll try and do some tests. > Another weakness of GWindows is that the mailing list where users can > go to help each other seems to be nonfunctional. As far as I know everything is in order, can you e-mail me directly with your specific problems. David@Botton.com Thanks! David Botton