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<snip>Started writing C for gnumeric instead, much easier for a beginner like myself. (Bias alert, I like using gnumeric a fair bit more than OOo calc.)
Out of interest, does anybody know the best way to write GUI based apps fast under Linux? There might be a bit of a market down that path over the next couple of years as a bunch of organisations migrate to Linux for all the right reasons, then realise they have a bunch of apps that have to be ported that are written in VB & VBA... Perl Tk? Tcl/Tk? Glade perl? Python Tk? XBasic? evem Kylix? (Not free, boo!) Anyone know anything about Qt's recent relase of a scripting language?
(No kudos for anyone who suggests C & GTK+ :) I mean fast for an idiot like me, drag & drool if you will...)
If you are already a C programmer, why not look into Java? There are drag & drool builders for Java, so you can build your application very fast.
I think that this may be very saleable to an organisation trying to migrate Windows VB/VBA apps: Using Sun's "write once / run anywhere" promise, they should not have to worry about future migrations.
Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
