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Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

1634.0. "Ada and/or TAE+ help" by LEVERS::STRINGER () Thu Oct 10 1991 12:23

    I have a customer who has a requirement to use TAE+ (thier standard for
    computer user presentation interface). They want to change the PM of  
    DECmcc v1.2ft, PM (presentation module) to use TAE+ and not DECwindows 
    or Motif. Thier software development is planning to use Ada as the 
    linkage. But they have some problems in understanding how to proceed. 
    I have no understanding of Ada and TAE+. Is there anyone who could help 
    me with understanding how to replace our curent PM offerring with other 
    types presentation managers. If you understand this question below or 
    have knowledge of TAE+ and can explain it to me, I'll pass the information 
    back to the customer. 
    
    Question asked by the customer's software engineer.

	How is the elaboration of Ada Packages applied when the main 
        process is not an Ada Procedure?

            ----------
            |        |
    	    | DECmcc |
            |	---------
            |___|  Ada  |
                |linkage|
                |   ---------
                |___|       |
                    |  TAE+ |
                    |_______|
    
     
    If this makes absolutly no sense, Please don't shoot the messenger. 
    Anyone willing and kind enough to assit, should send me Email to 
    LEVERS::STRINGER or call me @ dtn 227-3092
    
    Much thanks in advance...
    Jim Stringer

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	I am no more knowledgable then you regarding what they are asking, but I have a few other questions that might help me understand what they mean. Is TAE+ a window manager like decwindows or motif? Or, is it more like DECforms which provides a "style" for window formats, but not a manager. If it is like DECforms then they would need to write their own PM to do that, or to add an enrollable PM application into MCC (not doable before V1.2). If on the other hand it is a window manager like decwindows or motif then the question is, is the ada linkage supposed to be used to replace the decwindows/x-windows libraries (the libraries that provide the low level control routines for actually managing the display and the widgets presented on it). jill

I am no more knowledgable then you regarding what they are asking, but
I have a few other questions that might help me understand what they
mean. 

Is TAE+ a window manager like decwindows or motif? Or, is it more like
DECforms which provides a "style" for window formats, but not a manager.
If it is like DECforms then they would need to write their own PM to
do that, or to add an enrollable PM application into MCC (not doable 
before V1.2). If on the other hand it is a window manager like
decwindows or motif then the question is, is the ada linkage supposed
to be used to replace the decwindows/x-windows libraries (the libraries
that provide the low level control routines for actually managing the display
and the widgets presented on it).

jill