Recent developments in Linux points out to the power of a community of inspired developers working to produce and maintain quick IDEs to produce software. Here is one Visuabasic like environment which may give smiles to Linux users. It is exotically named Gambas (Gambas means almost basic like) and it is even already at version 2!
This may give a high quality tool to Linux software developers who are already familiar with the productivity and time efficiency of Delphi, C++Builder, and Visualbasic developers in Windows.
Gambas is easily installed using apt-get or synaptic tool in LInux. You will be presented with an operning screen shown above. Explore the power of Gamas by clicking on the examples.Choosing Timer for example and attempting to run it result in a displayed error box saying "Cannot load class 'Ftimer'. Unable to load class file. It turns out that the examples subdirectory is read only! So do the following:
sudo chmod -R o+w /usr/share/gambas2/examples
and all examples will run fine! Here is a snapshot of the timer example.
Now one can borrow or buy any Visual basic book and start creating fantastic graphical applications!
We just focus first on the installation. Then later we will write blog articles with examples for Gambas.
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