Andrew Lentvorski wrote: [snip] > Visual Basic is still probably *THE* fastest way to get a UI up and > running. > > Click-drag-click-drag-fill in some boilerplate-done. > > The "more powerful" languages would do well to take a few pages out of > the Visual Basic playbook.
I would say that Borland Delphi and now Lazarus with FreePascal <http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org> kicks the sh** out of Visual Basic for ease of GUI programming. Plus you can use the same language for both your UI stuff as well as any low level things you need to do. No dropping to C++ for systems stuff or even new widgets. Lazarus is even cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows) as well as multi-GUI (gtk, gtk2, carbon, win32, wince, qt). For a neat project see <http://code.google.com/p/winff/> which wraps FFMpeg for video conversions. Maybe I should do a presentation on Lazarus + FreePascal one of these days. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
