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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:17:24 -0600
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Marin David Condic wrote in message ...
>Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
>news:uvskpvaik0db2b@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> That's JWindows, which has been a part of Janus/Ada for MS-DOS and
>> Janus/Ada for Unix since the late 1980's. We originally developed it
to
>> use for our original IDE (JAWS). It does multiple, overlapping text
>> windows, colors, cursor control, and drop down menus. It's
implemented
>> by a low-level package that went direct to the hardware on MS-DOS and
>> used termcap (the underlying mechanism for curses) on Unix.
>>
>> We redesigned it for Ada 9x during the Ada 9x project (thus, the Ada
95
>> version is different than the Ada 83). Indeed, it provided the
starting
>> model for Claw.
>>
>
>Well, now there seems to be an answer! I'd guess that something like
this
>would not be too hard to make reasonably portable between Windows and
Unix
>(thus covering the bulk of the bases). Assuming an effort got started
to
>make some kind of "Standard" Ada library, would you think that this
might be
>included?


Sure, we have no real interest in it anymore.

This library was 100% portable between Unix and MS-DOS, and it would be
simple to build a low-level implementation for the console in Windows.
It would be much harder to build an implementation that could map to the
Windows (or other) GUI, but it would be possible.

I even wrote a "form" package for it, so it even had primitive dialog
boxes available, along with the drop-down menus and windows. But no
graphics of any kind.

             Randy.