If you are interested I can start putting a set of instructions on how to get Delphi and CBuilder (Kylix) to function under Linux 2.6 kernels. It is not sluggish at all and it works as you are used to since in reality it is a Windows version of the software with a Wine wrapper around it, they provided a set of Linux objects and libraries to create native programs. They no longer make the software available but I found an old page left behind that you can use to download the code, they still issue licenses.
< http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_kylix.html > You want to download the open edition, you need to answer a couple of questions and setup an account, then a license key will be sent to you via email. The following link is a different approach, you install parts of Kylix under Windows Delphi and after the program is working you ask it to generate Linux binaries. < http://crosskylix.untergrund.net/ > I also found copies of the Open versions of Windows Delphi V7 and CBuilder V6 that are no longer available but I don't have the links on this PC. At 10:10 AM 6/11/2006, you wrote: >James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > > I am not sure what exactly you are looking for, but eclipse is a good > > multi platform development environment for java, C++ and C. > > > > Is C++Builder mainly a Windows tool? > > > > James > > James, > > I am sure there are a lot of good C++ compilers for the Linux > platform, but I am looking for one that resembles the >C++Builder in its straightforwardness, simplicity and ease of use in >building the user interface. As an example, the >Visual C++ compiler of Microsoft for me is a misnomer, as the only >real "Visual" part of it is in its name... >With C++Builder, each widget (e.g. a frequency scale, a level meter, >etc.) is an object that I can not only place >interactively on the screen using the mouse, but that has >properties, methods and events, as a true object must have. >So to change the indication of a level meter, I simply send to it a >message, telling it to position the needle at the >value of, say, 7.3. So simple. What I am looking for is a Linux >compiler that allows me to continue to use this paradigm >when writing a program. So far Kylix is the one that comes closest. >But unless Borland has corrected it, when I tested >it more than three years ago, it was slow and sluggish as >molasses... I could start it, and go to have a cup of coffee >before the main IDE screen did show. Completely unusable... so >the search still continues. > >73 Alberto I2PHD > > > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com "Windows the worlds most successful software virus" _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
