From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,76e8d3fd68c3d761 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-24 13:24:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Screen Handling packages! Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:23:56 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <88d37469ae67efc323ba84e966f7b387.86200@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CEDC195.479B58C0@adaworks.com> <3CEDD190.8A1E722A@easystreet.com> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24684 Date: 2002-05-24T15:23:56-05:00 List-Id: achrist@easystreet.com wrote in message <3CEDD190.8A1E722A@easystreet.com>... >If you are using the GNAT for DOS compiler, you might want to look at >some of the graphics libraries that are available for djgpp. These >may provide a graphical (not text mode) UI, mouse support, some widgets, >etc, etc. Most of these are in C or C++ and intended for games >programmers, but it should be possible to talk to them from GNAT and >they may give a much nicer UI than you can make happen easily in pure >Ada. I haven't done any DOS in about four years, so I can't say for >sure what you will find, but there was still some large amount of games >programming and UI support for djgpp back then. The DOS Janus/Ada includes a text mode UI with basic mouse support. It's not particularly hard to use them. There also is an unsupported graphics library. Randy.