I would also point out that RAPID works with JGNAT (Ada to Java Virtual
Machine bytecode) as well as TASH.

--Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: David Botton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Aonix


I would suggest looking at the following for Open
Software GUI solutions (none of these require
purchasing any additional products or lic.):

Modified GPL'd GUIs (only derived works become GPL'd)
-

* GtkAda - http://www.adapower.com/gtkada
Cross platform
includes a GUI builder

* TASH - http://tash.calspan.com/
Cross Platform
RAPID for GUI builder -
ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/usafa/rapid/index.html

* Windex -
http://www.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/windex.html
Win32 thick binding

* GWindows - http://www.adapower.com/gwindows
Win32 only - Supports ActiveX controls and works with
GNATCOM COM support - http://www.adapower.com/gnatcom
Alpha code

GPL (derived works and works using it must be GPL'd) -

* JEWL - http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/jewl/
Win32 only - teaching framework


Some of your questions will be answered by trying the
above packages, some by looking at
http://www.adapower.com

There are of course other proprietary solutions that
have already been mentioned that are very reasonable
as well.

David Botton

--- Mike Brenner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> GUIs in Ada interests me a lot. I often seem to have
> the choice of Java,
> Python, Ada, awk, etc. And I prefer Ada as a
> language. But is there any
> reason to prefer it as a GUI builder?
>
> How could I tell how easy it is to build GUIs?
>
> Or what other kinds of license I would have to buy
> to do the GUI? This
> mail list often cited in the past that you had to
> buy Microsoft Visual
> C++ or some such product in order to use the
> interface in one of the
> common Ada compilers. So, without any further
> information, we simply
> don't use that interface, possibly years after that
> problem may have
> been solved.
>
> Is the GUI license like the graphics package (that
> the company that
> became Aonix sold me), that will not work unless I
> buy a license from
> another graphics company, and even then I would have
> problems knowing
> what features it would have?
>
> As a project leader, it is not someone else, but me
> myself who is asking
> the question: Okay, do it in Ada if you are sure it
> will work and will
> not waste months learning how to build GUIs that
> way?
>
> I saw some sample code that you had to write to do a
> web site in Ada and
> it looked like it would be easier to learn Java than
> to learn how to
> build web sites the Ada way. So I am not building my
> websites in Ada,
> even though Ada is my preferred language for such
> things as natural
> language processing, cryptography, and mathematical
> research.
>
> Is there a website somewhere that shows how EASY it
> is to build websites
> or GUIs in Ada? Perhaps a sample Ada program serving
> as a middle-tier,
> responding to CGI scripts by serving up a database
> on another server as
> XML and HTML?
>
> And perhaps a website somewhere that shows how EASY
> it is to build GUIs
> that work on all three operating systems (linux,
> Solaris, windows)?
>
> Is there perhaps a website that shows how to read
> the keyboard
> interrupts and mouse interrupts in linux and
> windows?
>
> Sometimes Ada lovers have to go to Python because we
> need faster
> development time or to Java because we need more
> operating system
> independence.
>
> Someday I will get around to programming the dynamic
> structures of
> Python in Ada for non-realtime work to get the
> advantages of faster
> development.
>
> But I would need some help in getting the operating
> system indepenence
> for such things as http drivers, mouse drivers,
> keyboard interrupts,
> ODBC, and GUIs.
>
>
>



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