Re: [Hbasic-userinfo] Hbasic

[misfit-x <mis...@ph...>]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 05:43, dan...@we... wrote:

> Q: How good is HBasic?  I use VB6 to write apps.  I'd love to be able to
> write apps for Linux using my existing skill-set.  How hard will it be to
> migrate my skills to HBasic?  Any help/suggestions/advice people can give?
> Also, I guess there is no way to port existing apps to Linux?

I haven't really done much with it yet, but I too am a (former) VB6 programmer.
I was able to add a button, a label and create a Hello World of sorts, at least.
You just click on the object (ie. button, etc.) to write code for it. I don't
know about file or i/o or other things yet, as I haven't really tried much
else. But it *looks* to me to be simlilar to VB6 that transferring your skills
shouldn't be too much of a problem. I also would suggest downloading the
HBasic docs from sourceforge and instlaling them (as root):

# cd /
# tar -xvzf [path to doc tarball]

The reason you want to be root in the top root directory is because when you
untar the docs, it will extract them to /usr/local/hbasic dir in it's own
documentation dir, it seems. Then you can access the docs via HBasic's help
menu.

The compiler puts the exes and object files in /usr/local/hbasic/compiler.
though you can change the paths and exe name in View menu, Project options.

You can also run the programs in the interpreter too, to test them. I haven't
tried the debugging (watch and breakpoints, step through, etc.) yet either.

>From what it looks though, if this works out, I won't need VB anymore. :) I
currently only have Linux installed so I want to be sure I have everything
that I used to have (work-alikes) in linux that I did in Windows. 

.:: misfit-x ::.