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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,db8d6ab83ae5880b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-11 13:26:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Eric Merritt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada GUI for Windows and Linux Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1031775962 3163 137.194.161.2 (11 Sep 2002 20:26:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:26:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28835 Date: 2002-09-11T13:25:48-07:00 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" 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute