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From: omullarn@oracle.oracle.com (Oliver Mullarney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Graphics in Ada
Summary: Is GKS still alive?
Keywords: Graphics, GKS, X
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.045837.7780@oracle.com>
Date: 10 Nov 90 04:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: omullarn@oracle.com (Oliver Mullarney)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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I've been out of the Ada world for a while, and am curious as to the status
of GKS, which I used extensively when I worked with Ada. As I recall, GKS
was adopted as the 'official' graphics system for Ada, the main reson being
portability.

Has anything else (Phigs, X etc.) usurped GKS? Does anyone actually use it,
or does everyone doing graphics work write a binding to the native graphics
system for the hardware platform of choice?

  Oliver Mullarney

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