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April 7, 2006, 23:43
OScoder
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Does anyone know of any alternatives to visual basic that are either free or open source? I mean, something that allows for application developement where you can directly control the gui...

Thanks,
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April 7, 2006, 23:48
Rincewind
programmer
1548 posts

Delphi 6 is visual too I believe. :D And I think it's free. I have no experience with it though.
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April 7, 2006, 23:56
OScoder
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1338 posts
err free?
http://www.borland.com/us/prod … lphi/index.html
Yeah, I know the link above is 2006.

If it's free - where from? I've used delphi a bit before, but didn't keep using it - mainly because the version I had was from a cover CD, and I couldn't distribute applications (I probably never would have anyway, but I didn't like the 'restricted' feeling about it)
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April 8, 2006, 00:04
OScoder
None
1338 posts
ironically I've just found something interesting (just needed to spend a little more time on google):
http://www.icsharpcode.net/Ope … SD/Default.aspx
Seems promising, have to check it out more in the morning...

any other similar projects that people have heard of?
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April 8, 2006, 00:08
DTM
Earthling!
823 posts

Rapid q? Or c++ with a resource editor.
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August 6, 2006, 23:01
Rhovanion
Exterminated
666 posts
just use java and eclipse :what:

I think it is a very good alternative for visual basic :p

[Edited on August 6, 2006 by Rhovanion]
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September 25, 2006, 16:30
Dennis
どこかにいる
2097 posts

Hey I just heard of this thing called Mono. They still work on the .NET 1.1 framework but it's open source and it's C# or vb.net.

see: http://www.go-mono.com

This might be just the thing you were looking for.
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September 25, 2006, 22:35
Fiona
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no mono no mono no mono no
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September 30, 2006, 02:53
MadMax
None
18 posts
There are plenty around, just of my head.

FreeBasic
SDLBasic
WxBasic
Gambas

Then other than basic

Python

And of course C/c++

gcc
g++

But if you are used to Microsoft Basic then http://www.freebasic.net/index … ection=features will most probably be the easiest to adapt to.

(fixed link for you) - Rincewind

[Edited on September 30, 2006 by Rincewind]
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