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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:02:31 +0000
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:44:09 +0000, Freejack wrote:

> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
> put together a decent patch.

Haven't tried it...yet.

> I know there are bindings to Gtk and such. I'll use those later. Right now
> I'm interested in OpenMotif and straight X/Xlib/Xt hacking.
> 
> On a side note, has anyone done any straight framebuffer hacking using
> Ada? I've been using C, but I wanna try it with Ada. Using the Linux FB
> drivers right now. Should be an interesting experiment with Ada's
> representation clauses as far as pixel pushing, shading, and such.
> Shouldn't be too difficult to get started as the Vesa/VBE standards are
> pretty well documented.

Try creating your own bindings for it, it's not that difficult to do.

Luke.