On 19 July 2013 15:35, Nigel Verity <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I write all the software to support my business activities using Gambas 3. If > you've used Visual Basic you can use Gambas. The two are remarkably similar. > You can connect to an SQLite database with 3 lines of code, and then you have > a very close equivalent to Access as well. > > While I would highly recommend Gambas, my reservation is that its development > team is very small and appears to rely on the expertise and goodwill of one > person. This obviously makes it vulnerable. > > I need a contingency plan in case Gambas support ceases. Does anybody have > recommendations for alternative rapid development environments? > > I've used a number of programming languages over the years, so that isn't an > issue. The main consideration is that it has a WYSIWYG form designer and a > straightforward method of connecting the GUI to the code. > > I've looked at Glade/GTK Builder. It falls well short of Gambas in terms of > ease-of-use, but it would be better than nothing. Any other suggestions, > please? > > Thanks > > Nige > > -- >
Slightly different language, but there's Lazarus. It's an IDE for FreePascal and should be roughly equivalent. MonoDevelop might also be worth a look if .NET is acceptable. ;) J -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
