Re: Ada GUI for Windows and Linux

[Eric Merritt <cyberlync@yahoo.com>]

Depending on what kind of gui you are trying to create
you could always create a web driven gui using AWS. If
its mostly disply and form style input and output this
will get you what you need.


--- "Frank J. Lhota"
<NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:
> My company is doing maintenance work on a very large
> Ada program that has
> been ported to NT. Currently, we are using the
> ObjectAda compiler. Our
> client is very interested in adding a GUI to this
> program. This could be
> done a number of ways. A thin binding for Win32
> comes with ObjectAda
> (win32ada). R&R (the JanusAda people) provide a
> thicker binding (Claw) to
> the Win32 API.
> 
> We need to be careful as to how to approach this,
> however, for our client
> has also expressed an interest in porting this
> program to Linux. It would
> therefore be foolish to implement the GUI stuff in a
> highly Win32-specific
> fashion.
> 
> The Claw library provides a clean interface to the
> windows GUI facilities,
> and is available for all the NT-based compilers,
> including ObjectAda. To my
> knowledge, however, there is no Linux port of Claw,
> and without such a port,
> this will not help us make the transition to Linux.
> 
> The GtkAda library does provide a GUI interface for
> both Windows and Linux,
> and would allow us to code the GUI for both OS's.
> The only problem is that
> AFAIK there is not an ObjectAda version of GtkAda,
> so we would have to
> rehost a lot of code to GNAT, as well as requiring
> that some fellow
> contractors to convert their work to GNAT. It is
> doable, but painful and
> politically unpopular.
> 
> The XML / GUI solution sounds great, but we need a
> solution that exists now.
> 
> How would you recommend we approach this? Is there a
> Linux port of Claw? An
> ObjectAda version of GtkAda? Or is there some other
> solution that would
> allow us to add a GUI to the windows version of this
> program that could
> easily moved to Linux?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you could provide in
> this matter.
> 
> 
> 
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