To answer the original Question: Yes, I've used VB (well, mainly VBA) - contact me off list.
On the subject of Linux / open source alternatives, I would like to find an alternative to VB that has a development environment with a context sensitive help / reference system. I want to be able to get help on the objects available and language elements. I've learned too many languages and am often needing to find the correct form of the case/ select statement for example! Suggestions so far include: wxPython ironPython Gambas how would these rate? Kerry. On 05/10/06, Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > > Apologies in advance. Any body used VB or knows a forum like > > this about? > > How about Gambas? > > http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ > > Then you would not need to apologise. > I believe at least one other list member is playing with it. > > <quote> > What is that new animal ? Well, Gambas is a free development environment > based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic. > (but it is NOT a clone!). > </quote> I'd second Carl's recommendation for Python. Gambas is not cross-platform. Python itself (script-level) *is* cross-platform, and with the addition of wxPython allows you to make cross-platfrom GUI applications. In fact, familiarity with VB will help with the event-style programming of a wxPython GUI app. You should probably start off with a few simple Python scripts (no GUI)- there are plenty of resources on the web including the downloadable-for-free "Dive into Python" by Mark Pilgrim. If you want to leap directly into the wxPython GUI world I recommend Boa Constructor as an IDE, and "wxPython in Action" by Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn as a reference/tutorial text. If you download the wxPython package and run the wxPython demo you will see just what wxPython can do, and of course you get all that and all the yummy goodness of Python itself. IMHO, Andrew PS I know I have reinforced the classic rabid Open-Source knee jerk response stereotype in answering a question like "I want to know about this" with a statement "You don't want to know about that, you want this". But of course it doesn't matter as I am right.
