On 12/13/2013 08:30 AM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: > Rob, you haven't use Gambas for years?
Nope, don't even have Gambas installed anywhere except on the host that runs gambasdoc.org. I still think Gambas is a great language (I'm still reading the list every day, after all) and if I were writing desktop software anymore, that's what I'd use. For web stuff I use regexes enough that perl is nicer to deal with (I don't know if Gambas has a regex operator now instead of using my terrible component, but at the time it didn't.) Mobile's a different story, but since Gambas doesn't work on Android yet, I've gotten very used to Java and obviously there's a huge critical mass of support in place for that. Anyway, the converter I wrote only operated on project files and form layout files, not code. Converting VB code automatically isn't realistic because they're really two very different languages. It's a porting job. I just wanted to automate the grunt work. I also wrote a perl script to convert my Gambas forms to HTML forms, but it used a Javascript library that was very buggy and is no longer maintained. And before all of that I wrote scripts to convert MS Access forms to VB. I do these things out of laziness and the fact that I'd almost always rather use a keyboard than a mouse, so writing code is preferable to dragging and dropping. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
