Gus Wirth wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > [snip] >> Visual Basic is still probably *THE* fastest way to get a UI up and >> running. >> >> Click-drag-click-drag-fill in some boilerplate-done. >> >> The "more powerful" languages would do well to take a few pages out of >> the Visual Basic playbook. > > I would say that Borland Delphi and now Lazarus with FreePascal > <http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org> kicks the sh** out of Visual Basic > for ease of GUI programming. Plus you can use the same language for both > your UI stuff as well as any low level things you need to do. No > dropping to C++ for systems stuff or even new widgets. Lazarus is even > cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows) as well as multi-GUI (gtk, gtk2, > carbon, win32, wince, qt). For a neat project see > <http://code.google.com/p/winff/> which wraps FFMpeg for video conversions. > > Maybe I should do a presentation on Lazarus + FreePascal one of these days.
Yea! Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
