Re: Ada for 1st year students

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

amado.alves@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> (4) Graphic or GUI library. (I want to be able to produce graphical
> output, not just the same old text output on a teletype-like window.)
> Same requirements as above, plus: a simple or small API, eventually at
> the cost of possibilities (e.g. may be limited to a single window, of
> a single fixed size, limited number of colors). Should have some
> support for input, e.g. textboxes, buttons, mouse input. Should use a
> simple fragment of Ada, viz. excluding OOP. Should support printing,
> or exporting to PDF or some such, or clipboard copying onto a "office"
> document, or any combination of the above. Support for a picture
> format would be a plus (PNG, JPEG...)

This is probably going to drive your platform selection. The only thing I'm 
aware of that comes close to meeting your requirements for this is JEWL, which 
is Windows only. JEWL is implemented using type extension, but does not require 
it from the client. It doesn't support printing, but should support clipboard 
copying. It can display BMP images.

Note: in English, "eventually" doesn't mean what its cognate in romance 
languages means (I'm familiar with "eventuel" in French).

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Jeff Carter
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