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From: "Stephane Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
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> If you want to make a windows application, then there are some great
windows
He was asking about Linux.
> handling. Stephen Leake's Windex library for Ada95 is the best most well
It is certainly nice. BTW, have you looked at GWindows ;-)
> doing. but again if you need database access to SQL server, here too you
can
> find Ada95 bindings to databases. www.adapower.com look it up there and
> you'll be surprised what you can find.
GWindows lets you bind fields from SQL queries directly to GUI elements just
like Delphi and VB
> Remember that Ada95 is a superset of Pascal (hence Delphi as well) and it
> also gives you the freedom to use whichever bindings you may choose to,
unlike
> Delphi which gives you the V.C.L. and that's it which means you're stuck
> using OWL. Owl isn't bad, but it's not the best available out there. With
Ada95
> you have the choice.
Sorry, OWL isn't even available for Delphi :-) That was there competition to
MFC for C++.
Delphi uses either VCL (the original Delphi library) or CLX (the new cross
platform library).
David Botton
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