[VB4Linux-Dev] GUI Development

[Abhijit P. <abh...@ma...>]

> Well, this may be the first version of VB4Linux that we make! Microsoft
> just accepted me as a Visual Studio.NET beta tester! When I get the
> stuff I'll prolly make the help files accessable to the group...

hey thats great news!

for the VB *.chm files, if you guys could wait till monday, I could have
those files up by then.
Mike, I think I would need the admin rights to do the needful...(or do I?)

I found out some more info about the GUI Development:

If you want something that will work on all X-servers, you are better
off using just Xlib and XT and not using any widget set at all. This
will ensure that your applicatoin will work on any X-server. However,
this involoves a lot of programming even for small things like buttons,
menus, and diaglog boxes, etc. that we generally take for granted when
we use a widget set.

If you would like to be able to use your application under all
distributions under linux, then you should program using GTK, there is a
tutorial at gtk.org and a book in the market.
Glade is very useful once you understand the code that is required to be
written in GTK, since you need to add to the code automatically
generated by Glade. Once you understand basic GTK concepts, Glade makes
UI development very easy.