Re: Ada GUI for Windows and Linux

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

I'm somewhat surprised that (apparently) no one has suggested RAPID,
a tcl/tk-based GUI-constructing system, developet by Dr. Matin Calisle,
et al., at the Air Force Academy.  Here is a link:
ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/usafa/rapid/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: Ada GUI for Windows and Linux


> 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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