Ada and portable graphics

Ada and portable graphics

[Reinert Korsnes]

Hi,

I plan to use Ada combined with graphics.

Could anybody recommend me what graphical system I should
invest in to use under Ada ?   I use Linux but the program(s)
I make should function under different systems also in 
the pretty far future.  "Fashion" is of no interest and stability,
long term easy to use and general availability is more important 
than short term easy to learn.  I can still read a book and learn :-)

reinert

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Re: Ada and portable graphics

[Preben Randhol]

On 9 Feb 2001 10:14:31 GMT, Reinert Korsnes wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I plan to use Ada combined with graphics.
>
>Could anybody recommend me what graphical system I should
>invest in to use under Ada ?   I use Linux but the program(s)
>I make should function under different systems also in 
>the pretty far future.  "Fashion" is of no interest and stability,
>long term easy to use and general availability is more important 
>than short term easy to learn.  I can still read a book and learn :-)

Depends what you mean by graphics. If you mean GUI, look at GtkAda
http://gtkada.eu.org/ if you mean 3D you have OpenGl binding with GtkAda
and you have also now a binding to SDL. If you mean plotting data,
GtkAda (with GtkExtra) or http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/. I also
think there is a binding to pgplot (FORTRAN plotting library)

Hope it helps

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