On Wednesday 16 October 2002 17:26, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run on linux > and think it was put under the gnu gpl license. Thing is, I don't know if > it runs only in the gui environment or can run in the text environment. > If it runs in the text environment, the government could provide blind > programmers with talking linux boxes and that visualbasic application then > they'd be able to do development without the problems inherent with > running windows for the blind and running vb6. >
I don't know about a Linux Visual Basic. There is a language called Xbasic, it's freeware, GNU GPL, maybe that's the one you've heard of. It runs only under the GUI but it will run under Win95 _and_ Linux. The source code is interchangeable between the two, the compiled version has to be compiled under the OS it's going to be run on. (So I'm developing a large custom stocktaking/database program for a friend on my Linuxbox here *and* on the Win95 box at work.... I just cart it back and forth on a floppy disk). It has an active mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and can be downloaded from a number of mirror sites - umm, try looking in Google, I've lost the list :) I don't know if it would be any better than VB for blind programmers though. cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
