Linux "Visual Basic"-like programming


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Since many people come to Linux and ask about a programming package that is comparable to Visual Basic, I thought that I would share a PCWorld blog entry that I found today that discusses GAMBAS.

If you're looking for a fast, easy way to create graphical Linux applications, take a look at Gambas. It's a free Integrated Development Environmet (IDE) built on the BASIC programming language -- with added object-oriented extensions. Think of it as Visual Basic for Linux.

According to the website: "...you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on..."

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If you've used other IDEs, Gambas will look pretty familiar. It's all there: form designer, properties viewer, toolbox, project viewer and integrated debugger...

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Once your code is running and tested, you simply Make the project -- as an executable, source archive or installation package -- and it's ready to run on any other Linux machine with the Gambas runtime interpreter installed.

Gambas comes with a useful 11-page Getting Started document, a good Wiki, and even several books -- one of them in English!

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and it's ready to run on any other Linux machine with the Gambas runtime interpreter installed.

this is the main flaw (just like VB6 required the runtime), otherwise it would be nice (but then applications written in BASIC might not be used by a lot of people anyways, so the runtime might not be that big of a deal)

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