Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip]
I'm comparing it to my memories of the Delphi and VisualBasic builders, which were (IIRC) pretty polished, so far as they went. (I was impressed with Delphi's ability to dynamically draw widgets as you typed in the code. Use the GUI to build, or type in code... Alas, I've never gotten around to checking out the Linux-descendent of Delphi.)
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The commercial version of Delphi for Linux is called Kylix, and there is a free version that you can download <http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_kylix.html> and install on an x86 system. However, it hasn't been updated for a few years and is abandoned. It uses the QT widget set from Trolltech and can create cross-platform apps for Windows and Linux x86. The open version does not include the database connection components, which are probably the most useful part, and there is a restrictive license that says you can only use the compiler to produce GPL projects.
There is an open-source project call Lazarus <http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org> that aims to emulate Delphi but has the advantage that it is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Mac, OS/2 and several other places. The default widget set is gtk+ but there are binding interfaces for other widget sets as well. The underlying compiler is FreePascal, which is an object-oriented extension of Pascal and can use Delphi syntax as well as its own and some from Mac Pascal. The goal of the FreePascal project is "write once, compile everywhere".
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