Maybe: Visual PowerBasic for Windows???

[stephane fonteyne]

Hi Support,

What do you think about an Visual Designer/IDE for PowerBasic for
Windows with OOP en visual components like other thirth part tools
like by example Borland Delphi, RealBasic.
It's a very good idee and PowerBasic is the Power of Basic and very very
fast only programming in WinApi have big troubles.

I think that PowerBasic company build new projects but more
Visual Designing and support OOP.
I look out to the new products and I will paid $250.00 for the
product.

Greets
Stephane

Sorry for my English but I'm student here and in my freetime I like
programming prefer in PB but in Belgium You will must learn C++,
Delphi, Visual Basic (to slow) en Java (Bah!!!!)


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[Gregery D Engle]

Stephane,

please stop repeating yourself. You just said this a few days
ago in the Third Party Fourms. If I do a search on your name
I'm sure that you have more Wishlist requests than actual
questions.

It is a waste of my time to even read what you say and I'm sure
other people are like this as well. Please stop spamming.

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-Greg

[Bern Ertl]

Stephane,

I have read your numerous requests to add a visual designer to
the PB IDE. I too had a hard time getting started with the Windows
API learning curve. But the solution is to start playing with available
PB source code examples and start learning. Repeatedly requesting
for PowerBASIC, Inc. to solve your problem (lack of API programming
knowledge) by changing the nature of their product is absurd.

The "problem" with adding a visual designer is that visual designers
ultimately can do only one of two things:

1) Create a resource for the "form" to be compiled with your code.
This is what VB does (I believe). It creates enormous .EXE's for
programs of any complexity.

2) Translate your "form" into PB/API code stubs. This is a more desirable
solution as it aleviates the "bloatware" problem which is a focus /
feature of the PB compiler. However, you are still required to learn
how the code stubs work in order to do anything with them.

I believe that there are messages in the Third Party Tools forum
discussing tools / methods for achieving a visual design to code
implementation.




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Bernard Ertl

[Egbert Zijlema]

Allow me folks,
to reply Stephane in Dutch. After all he lives in the Flemish (= Dutch speaking) part of Belgium. Since he is excusing himself for his bad English, he probably is not able to read your replies.

Stephane,
Je moet nu eindelijk eens ophouden met zeuren over een object-georienteerde programmeeromgeving. Die wens is meermalen, niet alleen door jou, geuit en we moeten nu afwachten inhoeverre PB bereid
is dit te honoreren.

Translation:
Finally stop whining for an object orientated development environment. More people have asked for it so we may assume that Power Basic is aware of that wish. Let's simply wait and see.

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[This message has been edited by Egbert Zijlema (edited March 09, 2001).]

[Russ Srole]

Shephane,

Check out Ezgui (ezgui.com) by Chris Boss. It is making the transition from Dos to windows a lot easier for me. You will still have to deal with the API, but not all the time and not immediately.

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