GUI Programming

[Che Guebeara]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:10:40 -0400
Scott <slewin at bmts.com> wrote:

> Che Guebeara wrote:
> > If you are looking for a VB-like dev environment with decent GUI
> > tools integrated take a look at Gambas.  I have been playing with
> > it for a few weeks now and it is rapidly maturing into quite the
> > deal.
> I used Gambas a while ago and thought it was nice to, but I stopped 
> using it and moved onto Python because simply, very few people have 
> Gambas on their computer.  Gambas is okay for writing software only
> you will use yourself, but it is not the nest for designing software
> for others.  Most people will have Python or Java in their computer,
> but few will have the gambas runtime installed.  So, you would need
> to tell everyone to have gambas installed on their computer before
> they could use your computer.
> 
> 
That sort of reminds me of the argument that went about in the Windows
world about people not having the VB6 runtimes on their machines so why
use VB... somehow 60% of the apps in the Windows world ended up being
developed in VB (a shocking statistic I am sure to the C++ purists).

One of the things we have been pushing the devs at Gambas for is
putting the runtime into the installer by default, which is coming
(even though you are starting to see the runtime in distros).

The major drawback to Gambas that I see is that it is Linux native and
has only simple tools for porting VB apps over.

As for Python I love most everything about it except for RAD, which is
still a convoluted process and the fact that there are few decent
Python webhosts out there (I am *sadly* porting OsoBlues to PHP/MySQL
vs Python/Sqlite3 for that reason... aargh...).

Mark