Gambas

Sponsorship the way you would do it

Gambas is a programming language for Linux which attempts to mimic the ease of use of Visual Basic while improving on its functionality. Although Gambas is not source code compatible with Visual Basic, it is a Basic Interpreter with object-oriented extensions. Gambas is released under the GNU General Public Licence.

Gambas is an acronym for Gambas almost means basic. Gambas makes it very easy to build linux programs with a GUI. It uses the Qt to create the GUI.

There is a Windows version of Gambas, which barely runs under the Cygwin environment. Graphical applications to not work under the Windows version of Gambas.

Gambas has been developed since 1999 by BenoÃÂ®t Minisini, who lives near Paris, France.

The current version (March 2004) is:

0.91

Gambas is distributed by the Linux Professional Distribution 9.0 from Suse and is installed correctly.

With Gambas you can easily

make a program with a graphic user interface GUI
use databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL
build KDE applications with DCOP
translate your programs in other languages.
offer Visual Basic programs under Linux.
build network solutions

Gambas is improving every month and can be recommended to all Linux users, who want to use their VB knowledge on a GNU basis.

The IDE of Gambas is written in Gambas itself.

Table of contents

1 Alternatives
2 Citations
3 External links

Alternatives

Hbasic for Linux
- http://hbasic.sourceforge.net/
VB for Windows

Citations

"This project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that we have a language like Visual Basic under Linux."
"If you pass the responsibilty for the pc operating system only to one company , then this is just the same, as if you would sell the abc or the integers to this company."
"Still, this Qt-based software is one of the most advanced open source RAD tools available. It is nearly complete and very usable and stable. Benoit's goal is to avoid the development failures of Microsoft Visual Basic. The modern concept of Gambas is available as a graphic at the Web site. Gambas is translated into many languages. To run Gambas applications you need the Gambas interpreter component installed on the user machine."

External links

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ Gambas Webseite
http://www.TheEasyGambasDoku.de/
http://www.binara.com/gambas-wiki/bin/view/Gambas/WebHome
http://www.madeasy.de/7/prgmini.htm
- miniprograms to test Gambas in german

Gambas is the Spanish word for shrimp.