GUI programming question
Knapp
magick.crow at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 10:15:04 UTC 2009
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:55:46PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
>>
>>> I have a small project that needs a simple GUI app developped to
>>> simplify firing off complicated command lines..
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>> Whats the easiest way to do this for someone with very little
>>> programming experience??
> There is another option which is the GUI programming language called
> Gambas. It's very similar to Visual Basic, and is actually a Basic
> programming language. With it, you will be able to create the form for
> your project in a what you see is what you get environment, that will
> allow you to drag and drop elements like the command buttons, and text
> boxes onto a main form that you start the project with..
>
> Once you have the form looking the way you want it, you then put your
> code in function modules which are associated with action triggers from
> the elements you have added to your form. For instance, for a command
> button, there will be click() event that you can add code to as well as
> an onmouseout(),, and a text box will have an onchange() event or
> something close. and some other code events associated with it.
>
> The form itself will have an onload event and an onunload event plus a
> main event to add code to. Overall it makes developing a GIU application
> very easy.
>
> I've actually got it installed here, but I haven't gotten around to
> using it yet. It's available in the Ubuntu repositories, so just fire up
> Synaptic and install it. 8-) You won't find an easier way to create a
> GUI program in Ubuntu.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
QT Creator is almost the same but with C++
pyQT has one more step but is also the same idea.
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Douglas E Knapp
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