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Porting visual basic to linux
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| Edward Langenback 2006-05-15, 1:11 am |
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I've got a little visual basic app I wrote a while back for windows and now
that I have moved on to linux, I'd like to port it over. I don't mind
rewriting it in C or somesuch, but one thing I need is a good kickstart on
how to go about creating a GUI app.
I suppose something like wine might be an option (if I can ever find a
version that will work, but that's another dozen google searches), but I'd
rather have something more 'native' than that.
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| Mark South 2006-05-15, 7:11 am |
| On Sun, 14 May 2006 23:57:33 -0500, Edward Langenback wrote:
> I've got a little visual basic app I wrote a while back for windows and now
> that I have moved on to linux, I'd like to port it over. I don't mind
> rewriting it in C or somesuch, but one thing I need is a good kickstart on
> how to go about creating a GUI app.
Tcl/Tk is about the closest thing there is to VB on Linux. Using the
sample code supplied, it should take only a few minutes to get basic
window apps going.
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| Geico Caveman 2006-05-15, 1:12 pm |
| Edward Langenback wrote:
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> I've got a little visual basic app I wrote a while back for windows and
> now
> that I have moved on to linux, I'd like to port it over. I don't mind
> rewriting it in C or somesuch, but one thing I need is a good kickstart on
> how to go about creating a GUI app.
>
> I suppose something like wine might be an option (if I can ever find a
> version that will work, but that's another dozen google searches), but I'd
> rather have something more 'native' than that.
>
Look into Gambas. It provides a great deal of functionality of Basic. Other
possibilities are realbasic (proprietary but free).
Is the VB code a part of some Microsoft Office automation ? If so,
OpenOffice has its own equivalent for VB.
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| Edward Langenback 2006-05-15, 1:12 pm |
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On Monday 15 May 2006 12:04 pm, In
<4468b469$0$21728$b45e6eb0@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>, spam@spam.invalid
wrote:
> Edward Langenback wrote:
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> Look into Gambas. It provides a great deal of functionality of Basic.
> Other possibilities are realbasic (proprietary but free).
I'll have a google at it.
> Is the VB code a part of some Microsoft Office automation ? If so,
> OpenOffice has its own equivalent for VB.
Nope, nothing to do with Office, just a simple straightforward get some
inputs and hand off to other programs for processing and then present
results.
- --
http://blog.peculiarplace.com
http://lurasbookcase.com
http://peculiarplace.com
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| Luc The Perverse 2006-05-15, 7:12 pm |
| "Edward Langenback" <apostle@pokynet.com> wrote in message
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> Nope, nothing to do with Office, just a simple straightforward get some
> inputs and hand off to other programs for processing and then present
> results.
Are you sure it not just easier then to rewrite it, by hand in another
language? If it truly is trivial - I mean
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| Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) 2006-05-15, 7:12 pm |
| Edward Langenback wrote:
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> I've got a little visual basic app I wrote a while back for windows and now
> that I have moved on to linux, I'd like to port it over. I don't mind
> rewriting it in C or somesuch, but one thing I need is a good kickstart on
> how to go about creating a GUI app.
> [...]
These are a some of the native RAD (rapid application development)
options for Linux:
Programming Language + GUI Toolkit (and designer)
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TCL + Tk
Perl + Tk
Perl + Glade + Gtk
Python + Gtk
Python + Tk
Python + wxWindows + Gtk
Ruby + Tk
I'm sure there are others.
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| Edward Langenback 2006-05-16, 1:13 am |
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On Monday 15 May 2006 03:41 pm, In <kk5nj3xq6v.ln2@loki.cmears.id.au>,
sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m@cc.usu.edu wrote:
> "Edward Langenback" <apostle@pokynet.com> wrote in message
> news:IsSdnVJWk7K9IPXZnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@ce
nturytel.net...
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> Are you sure it not just easier then to rewrite it, by hand in another
> language? If it truly is trivial - I mean
That's pretty much what I'm going to do. I was just looking for
recommendations of a language that would allow a barebones GUI to be
reasonably painless to a newbie.
- --
http://blog.peculiarplace.com
http://lurasbookcase.com
http://peculiarplace.com
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| Luc The Perverse 2006-05-16, 1:12 pm |
| "Edward Langenback" <apostle@pokynet.com> wrote in message
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> That's pretty much what I'm going to do. I was just looking for
> recommendations of a language that would allow a barebones GUI to be
> reasonably painless to a newbie.
Have you considered Java? You could rewrite it and run test cases in
Windows - and then never have to port it again ;)
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LTP
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