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Ada 95 GUI Binding and Tools for Windows 95

This binding and set of tools will allow application developers to build 
Microsoft Windows 95 systems using Ada 95.


Features

The binding is specifically designed for Ada 95 and Win32, and will not 
be tied to the underlying C API routines.  The user-friendly design will 
use several Ada 95 features, including errors returned via exceptions 
parameters with default values and descriptive names where appropriate 
child packages to structure the binding extensive use of tagged types 
and inheritance

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) Builder is a Windows 95 visual 
applications builder for the Ada 95 programming language.  It features a 
menu builder and a button bar maker, allows the drawing of a user 
interface and the simulation of the created GUI, and automatically 
generates code from the user interface.


Benefits

The Binding and Tools offer several benefits to application developers;  
the product is: 

-Object-Oriented:  Uses tagged types, inheritance, and dynamic binding 
to make construction of code easy and to keep the binding maintainable 
and manageable in size.

-Portable:  Does not restrict programmers to the use of a specific 
compiler; the binding will rely on Ada 95 interfacing abilities 
(Appendix B) to be portable to any Ada 95 compiler for the Windows 95 
platform that conforms to the Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC) 
test suite.

-User-friendly:  Raises Ada exceptions for most errors and employs 
understandable names for all concepts.

-Well-Documented:  Provides comprehensive documentation in a Windows "Help 
File" format.  Each entity and command in the binding and tools is 
documented and cross-referenced to related entities; tutorials include 
example programs using bindings.


Availability

Beta test copies of the object-oriented Ada 95 GUI Binding and Tools for 
Windows 95 will be available in August 1996.  The commercial release for 
this product is scheduled for September 1996. 


For more information, contact:

R.R. Software, Inc.
Mr. Ian Goldberg
P.O. Box 1512
Madison, WI  53701-1512
Phone:	608/245-0375
Fax:		608/245-0379
Email:	Ian@rrsoftware.com


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