SpoOnMan rightly pointed out the use of Qt, However you should be aware of RAD enviroments available for Linux that utilize BASIC dialect as a programming language to build Linux GUI applications.
Porting your existing VB code to one of the discussed at the following link may be a more feasible task.( all of the discussed use Qt as the underlying GUI library )
refer to: http://www.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/02/02/1932209.shtml
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If you want to rapidly develop BASIC programs for Linux, there are plenty of choices. I consider Gambas and HBasic to be the most complete and usable packages at the moment. If Realbasic finally releases a product that matches its promises it will be pretty well accepted by commercial software companies. Realbasic will make a fortune if it is the first to offer a VB-to-Linux code converter
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Although , most of the discussed are still come out of beta stage but are stable enough to be used in a production enviroment ( don't flame me if it doesn't ;) .
One more thing , Qt is *NOT* GPL and you have to buy Their license if you plan to develop commercial software.
If you really want free beer, The next best option would be to investigate GUI toolkits available for interpreted languages like Perl, which are bound to give a shorter SDLC.
regards Ankit.
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 Pankaj Kaushal wrote :
Rajesh Jha wrote:Hi all,
We are a firm based in Delhi who are serious of migrating to Linux platform from Microsoft Windows. I would like to know if there are any programming languages available in comparison to VB.
I would also like to know the cost involved in case we hire any C++/ Java programmer on a freelance basis to convert our softwares from VB.
There is work going on with Mono in order to get vb.net application to compile on linux using gtk+ libs. but its very basic and wont be production level for some time to come.
see: http://sastools.com/b2/post/79394073
there is something called Knut.
see: http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/?page=products&sub=knut
using this tool you could convert your vb dialog boxes into Qt Designer
dialogs
ofcourse you would have to port the underlaying application code to QT yourself.
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Cheers!
Spo0nman
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