I have been using SUSE for over a year now and I have at last got to the point where I rarely have to boot my laptop into Win XP. However the thing that I do still venture back to windows for is Visual Basic. I am a proud owner of VB6 learning edition which comes with a tutorial cd and MSDN library, from which I have taught myself how to write some fairly heavy duty software. I miss the ability to just write a program with a GUI and code all in one simple IDE. Can anyone suggest a good linux IDE that would seem familiar to me (I have tried GAMBAS but it isn't really what I want because it is close to Visual Basic but I think I would start picking up bad habit wapping between the two.) I would like something using C or Java but I need a tutorial to get me started since my knowledge of C and Java is very limited at the momennt and I don't learn well from books of examples.

Check out python (or pygtk) and glade as an interface designer. Not similar to VB per se, but very powerful with an easy learning curve. Tons of tutorials out on the net.

slight

I second the Python recommendation. It is very easy to produce very powerful software with it.


Håkan

HBasic looks similar to Visual Basic, but I think it resembles Visual Basic.NET. There is also Pheonix from Janus Software.

Python is a good programming language to know because it works almost everywhere.

Qt is a complete C++ application framework, including a class library and tools for cross-platform development
here you will find link to books about Qt

You may also want to have a look at http://www.realsoftware.com/download/linux/ it's the BASIC language with cross platform portability to mac and windows

When you look at "Visual Basic" in the Windows environment, you're really looking at two fundamental pieces:

• A relatively small and simple scripting language, and ...
• A rich collection of OLE objects, some of which come with the system but a great many of which you must buy.

When you look at the Linux/Unix world...

• There is no strong corollary to the "OLE object." Whereas the Windows-32 system is almost completely centered around the OLE framework (which penetrates to the very heart of the system), Linux/Unix by-and-large is not.
• Whereas the Windows world is very dominated by a single vendor and "the single vendor's language," Linux/Unix is not. Visual Basic shows up in the Windows world in a half-dozen different incarnations, but Linux/Unix has many different approaches proceeding more-or-less simultaneously.

Or just step it up and start using mono, and the .net framework..

interesting, my question is there a clone to visual basic that I can use? that is the only reason i need to boot into windows, or start my vmware to use the visual studio package that i got from school.

Here is a Visual Studio .NET IDE for Linux http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=45

Oh sorry dude,,i forgot your needing a strait up Visual basic (non .net) nevermind...in that case there is no vb editor for linux that i know of..

Here is a another suggestion

http://www.kbasic.de/

Thank's for all the suggestions guys!

I tried python and it looks good, I am quite happy with the command line and have written a few bits and pieces. It helped me understand what gentoo was up to when I built a copy of that a few weeks ago since portage is all written in python. I tried using Eric3 to make some GUI stuff using python but I still haven't got the hang of the qt thing. Anyway in the meantime I have got some books from amazon and I'm teaching myself c++, probably one of the more common languages about these days. I've got another book on order about cross platform c++ GUI development using qt and hopefully that will give me an idea of how to get into it.

Replacement for visual basic? How about a good programming language?

Oh ok, sarcasm aside, I thought mono was supposed to replace VB? Though as someone who's not used it, I could be completely wrong.

wxPython should be used with Python if you want GUI. QT takes a lot of memory. wxWidgets is the same as QT but it is a lot lighter on the system.

With wxPython and Python working use Boa Constructor. Also use wxPython demo to figure out how to use the controls.