I've used Gambas before, it's actually pretty cool. The problem is that if you want to run your app on another machine, the entire Gambas (and dependencies) need to be installed as well - a serious PITA. Not exactly good for writing apps you have any plans on distributing. From that perspective, Gambas is an absolute mess.
For an actual realistic solution of "Visual Basic for Linux", use RealStudio. It's not free, but really good stuff. I've been using it to write distributable GUI Linux apps for many years.
http://www.realbasic.com
From: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 6:50 PM
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] An Application I just Discovered
This groups is on life support so I figured I'd post a message about an application I recently discovered. It is a clone of Visual Basic.
For those who run the chosen distribution the command to install it is:
sudo aptitude install gambas2
Everyone else should go here for more information:
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
Writing a program with it couldn't be easier. Be warned aptitude will pull in a lot of packages to make the magic happen. Enjoy!
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