On Thursday 05 October 2006 13:07, Andrew Errington wrote: > I'd second Carl's recommendation for Python.
Thirded. How about pyqt4? I've not done much in it but from what I have it's nice to work with. The widgets are much nicer that wxWindows IMHO. With QT4 there are now cross platform open source licenses. > 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. -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
