While we're on the subject of VB let me ask a question. I'm curious: Is there a clone of VB6 for Gentoo? I know about Gambas, but Gambas doesn't have a lot of the features I've grown used to in VB over the past several years, and I don't find the help system very helpful... -Michael Sullivan-
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:29 -0600, Keith Gable wrote: > Yes, this is something serious. Know how 16 bit apps are depreciated > in XP? Sort of the same thing. In Longhorn, non-.NET VB/C apps will > run depreciated. C is not a problem; just recompile with VS 7.0's cc. > VB, however, is. VB.NET is totally different from VB6. > > Fortunately, though, Sun has every intention of making Java support > Avalon, WinFX, Indigo, and all the hot new .NET/Longhorn stuff. I > would recommend Java over VB any day. > > As for the OP, this is like way offtopic. Like, this is entirely the > wrong domain name to be sending this message to. The wrong operating > system even. That said, why not look at Litestep? Their several years > worth of work is much better than anything you can throw up in VB in > the time you have. May require you to learn C, but I'm managing it, so > you can too (yes, I know VB like the back of my hand; I wrote a server > in it ffs [yes, that's a bad idea, don't mention it]). Open formats > for themes are present in LiteStep and BlackBox. Use their themes (or > actually, use one of those two instead, their shell is better than > anything you can throw together in VB -- there is no need to reinvent > the wheel). > > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:24:06 +0200, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > I asume you know M$ is dropping support for non-.NET VB... > > > > Could someone tell me exactly what this means? I am trying to convert > > the boss to Java and if this was something serious then I might have a > > better shot. Does it mean that non .NET will not run properly on their > > forthcoming pieces of vomit OSes? > > Cheers > > Antoine > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
