Rick,

 > I am building a research/educational_support package.  I have a need for
 > (free) commercial or near-commercial strength Ada development packages for
 > building GUIs and Graphics display.  There used to be some around but I
 > have spent hours fruitlessly searching.  Does anyone know where they hide?

GtkAda seems a good candidate to me. It is Open Source and free to use
(commercial support available from AdaCore).

See: http://libre.adacore.com/

Pascal.

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