Re: Ada GUI for Windows and Linux

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Frank J. Lhota wrote in message ...
>...
>The Claw library provides a clean interface to the windows GUI
facilities,
>and is available for all the NT-based compilers, including ObjectAda.
To my
>knowledge, however, there is no Linux port of Claw, and without such a
port,
>this will not help us make the transition to Linux.
>...
>How would you recommend we approach this? Is there a Linux port of
Claw?

Not currently. We've thought about this some, but it isn't clear what
GUI toolkit to target, and it isn't clear whether the Windows-centric
interface of Claw can be reproduced on Linux.

One solution that would work is to run the application under a Windows
emulator on Linux, such as Wine. I believe that Tom Moran tested several
Claw applications on Wine on his Linux box, and they all worked
appropriately. Then you could use the standard Claw on Linux. Of course,
that doesn't work if you need access to native Linux functions not
supported in Win32.

            Randy Brukardt
            R.R. Software, Inc.