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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,69999ed88ef5e4fb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 03:04:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!easynews!e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: Reading the source. (Novice question.) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. References: <6rJ77.55408$JN6.10656566@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> <3B5F74F4.C5ED3B1@worldnet.att.net> <3B5FDD6C.6000904@bigfoot.de> User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:04:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 996141852 24.0.109.49 (Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:04:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:04:12 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10586 Date: 2001-07-26T10:04:12+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B5FDD6C.6000904@bigfoot.de>, Gerhard H�ring wrote: > James Rogers wrote: > >> >> McDoobie wrote: >> >>>I downloaded and installed the mw_components library from adapower.com >>> >>>Now, I'm a little fuzzy on where I look in the source code to find >>>names of the routines and parameters that I actually call from this >>>group of packages. >>>(I'm sure this is proabably covered in my book somewhere, I just havent >>>found it yet.) Specifically, I'm interested in the "bags" package. >>> >>>I'm gonna try writing some code to see if I can figure it out on my >>>own, but a little pointer or two would be helpful. >>> >>> >> >> Look in the package specifications. > > > Apart from the obvious (looking into the .ads file and the test_bags* > files), you can get a cross-referenced view of the source code with > gnathtml. That's sometimes quite useful when browsing thru source. > > Gerhard > Thanks. I am browsing the .ads files. Very informative. This is actually easier than I thought. Compared to browsing C libraries in particular. Just about got the OOP concepts worked out. Those .ads files are helping alot with that. Thanks again. McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me