Re: Do you do ASIS?

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

An easier solution on Win32 is to use COM. Place your code in to an Ada COM
object (which takes about 5 minutes to spec in IDL and 2 seconds to generate
using CreateCOM) and access the Ada code naturally from VB or create forms
in a VB COM object and then take control of the VB forms by binding to them
using BindCOM.

Creating very functional GUIs for Ada by designing an HTML page (using your
favorite HTML editor, mine is notepad) and then using the COM tools to bind
to the DHTML model is also a very easy and functional solution.

There is also no reason that you can not combine GUI frameworks like GTKAda,
CLAW, or Windex by using a (20 line of code) MFC dll to hang the ActiveX
GUIs on an HWND (I have done it before).

David Botton


Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote in message <8ajajo$1ab$1@wanadoo.fr>...

>A possible solution (actually used by one of my clients, worked quite
well):
>Design the user interface with VB, write the algorithmic part in Ada, and
>communicate through CORBA.