Archeia

The status of wxAda

After a long break from wxAda, I'm getting back into looking at it. I've decided to start again and generate the bindings automatically using the 2.9.x interface files. Binding is a difficult proces and this could take some time to acheive.

Dot notation for tagged types

Using the code from the interface types tutorial, we can now use the dot notation provided by Ada 2005.

Interface types

Carrying on from the abstract types tutorial, the natural progression is to add multiple inheritance.

Abstract types

This tutorial will show you what an abstract type is in Ada. I will also provide information on how the Ada type equates to the C++ class.

An abstract type provides the "specification" for a family of a user defined types.

wxAda: an Ada95 binding to wxWidgets

wxWidets was a piece of software I was using at work, I liked it so much that it made it's way into my home projects.

As I was using wxWidgets a lot, I was getting rather annoyed with C++.