If you find a good answer with a good ide then I'd like to know.
Cheers Don
Kerry Mayes wrote:
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.
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