AW: [Hbasic-userinfo] Hbasic

[Engels, M. <Mar...@SP...>]

Hi,

currently I think HBasic is only stable enough to try small examples. =
It
works but I wouldn't recommend trying to migrate vb6 applications in =
this
state. I also have created VB6 applications in the past and I wanted to
create something similar under Linux with HBasic but this should not =
become
a copy of Visual Basic. Linux and the Qt library are working different =
in
many ways and I think it doesn't make much sence to copy the Visual =
Basic
functions one on one. It might make some sence to create an identical =
copy
if you try to migrate existing projects but I think it it better to
implement a linux-style version which implements the reuired functions =
and
think about better functions for the rest.

Marcus Engels=20

-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: misfit-x [mailto:mis...@ph...]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2004 15:29
An: HBasic List
Betreff: Re: [Hbasic-userinfo] Hbasic


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.=20

.:: misfit-x ::.



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