Years ago (circa C64, yeah I'm older than dirt) I laid my hands on a small program for the C64 that was awesome. You built a flowchart of your program, filled in some forms, sketched in a few controls, and BAM! It autogenerated Commodore BASIC code for the program! I remember building a small database program with it in like 15 min. It wasn't fantastic, but it worked according to how I had built it. The system "knew" when a decision diamond was inserted that variables were going to be tested and program flow redirected, and just asked for the bare minimum info that it needed to do the job. You could customize the code more if you needed to, but it wasn't usually needed. You could also use pre-built "frameworks" and sub-routines for adding features.

I guess you could build an IDE like that now, it would need some kind of database backend filled with libraries, and a form builder for your UI.

Is there anything like that now? Maybe for Java, Python, or Gambas? I would like to build a couple programs, but I'm incredibly rusty at programming, and never did learn to utilize a GUI, or program in C, just a little BASIC, Pacal, and DOS batch files. I'm not stupid, just ignorant.

Thanks,

rallen71366

Not that I know anything about this, but I believe that you are looking for a Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram programming tool, one that creates code from flowcharts.

Browse through the freshmeat.net: code generators category.

By making that distiction, you have proven that you're right. Or rather, that you're not stupid

I had a (very) brief affair with dia. I recall it having code generation for class declarations and producing `blank skeletons' for the definitions, at least in C++ and java. I figure that it'd be worth checking out, but I won't make any promises.

If you want to get back into programming, I can recommend python. It's simple, yet powerful (i.e. it's not logo ). See more on www.python.org, and read ESR's `Why Python'.

hth --Jonas