Difference between revisions of "Gambas"

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About

Gambas is a programming language and IDE.

It is:

intended to fill the same niche as VB, though not intended to be code-compatible
currently only available for Linux and other Unix-derivatives (there is a partially-functioning Windows version)
open-source

Pages

/authoring -- developing Gambas itself
/flaws
/help browser
/questions answered and unanswered
/reference
error messages:
- Not enough arguments

How To

Installation:
- Install Gambas 3.5 via PPA in Ubuntu & Linux: how to install the latest version (which may not be available in your default repositories)
Develop with:
- Responding to right-clicks: the standard Click event also responds to right-clicks
- Showing a pop-up menu: still looking into this...
- /nesting forms

Links

Official

Gambas homepage
- official documentation (on the Gambas wiki): version 2; version 3

Reference

Projects

resources

Gambas IRC channel

Defunct

HowTo Gambas: Building GUI Applications
defunct as of 2024

~~tutorials~~ (English, Spanish)
defunct as of 2007; archive

~~Linux Basic~~
seems to have gone defunct in late 2013; archive

was a forum: ostensibly for "the new breed of Basics coming out for the Linux operating system", but the focus seems to have been mostly (or entirely) on Gambas

Notes
The Help system appears to be wiki-based, possibly feeding directly off the Gambas wiki -- so any errors found can be corrected by anyone, in theory. Not sure how easy this is in practice. (Edit buttons do not appear in the Help app, so you would have to find the correct page on the wiki, and get editing permission from the webmaster.)

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-[[Gambas]] is a programming language and [[IDE (programming)|IDE]].{{seedling}}
+<hide>
-Gambas is intended to fill the same niche as [[VB]], though it is not intended to be code-compatible. Gambas is currently only available for [[Linux]]; it is [[open-source]], however, and porting to Windows or other OSs is a possibility.
+[[page type::article]]
-==Reference==
+[[thing type::programming language]]
+[[thing type::integrated development environment]]
+[[category:software]]
+</hide>
+==About==
+[[Gambas]] is a [[programming language]] and [[IDE (programming)|IDE]].
+It is:
+* intended to fill the same niche as [[Visual Basic|VB]], though not intended to be code-compatible
+* currently only available for [[Linux]] and other Unix-derivatives (there is a partially-functioning Windows version)
+* [[open-source]]
+==Pages==
+* [[/authoring]] -- developing Gambas itself
+* [[/flaws]]
+* [[/help browser]]
+* [[/questions]] answered and unanswered
+* [[/reference]]
+* error messages:
+** [[Not enough arguments]]
+==How To==
+* '''Installation''':
+** [https://www.htlinux.com/install-gambas-3-5-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-linux/ Install Gambas 3.5 via PPA in Ubuntu & Linux]: how to install the latest version (which may not be available in your default repositories)
+* '''Develop with''':
+** '''Responding to right-clicks''': the standard Click event also responds to right-clicks
+** '''Showing a pop-up menu''': ''still looking into this...''
+** [[/nesting forms]]
+==Links==
+===Official===
 * [http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ Gambas homepage]
-* [[Wikipedia:Gambas]]
+** official documentation (on the [[/wiki|Gambas wiki]]): [http://gambasdoc.org/help/?v2 version 2]; [http://gambasdoc.org/help/?v3 version 3]
-==Woozle Notes==
+===Reference===
-I'm currently trying to learn Gambas, as it appears the easiest of the Linux IDEs I've been able to find so far. Here are the issues I've run into so far.
+* {{wikipedia}}
-==Stumbling Blocks==
+* {{wikibooks}}
-* The form resize event doesn't pass the form's size as an event parameter. '''Answer''': the size is easily available as a form property. So this issue was just over-VisualBasicization on my part.
+===Projects===
-* When you make a set of controls into a group and then assign an event to the group, how do you get a pointer back to the control which initiated the event? The most obvious solution would have been for the event to pass the control as a parameter; Gambas events don't seem to use parameters. Another intuitive solution would have been for the group itself to appear on the form's list of controls/methods, as an alias for the currently active/effective control, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Finally, if the form had an ActiveControl property, I could pull the .Tag value from there, although I would expect to run into problems using this technique under some circumstances. '''Answer''': The LAST keyword refers to the control which generated the current event.
+===resources===
-==Flaws==
+* [irc://irc.freenode.net/#gambas Gambas] IRC channel
-* (Minor) Identifiers are not automatically capitalized to match their declaration, as in VB; fortunately, identifiers are not case-sensitive, so this doesn't make things ugly the way it does in C/C++.
+===Defunct===
-* (Semi-minor) The field-list doesn't pop up under certain circumstances; checking into this.
+* <b>[http://howtogambas.org/index.php?page=cedi&type=misc&id=3 HowTo Gambas: Building GUI Applications]</s>
-* (significant) Help system is not context-sensitive; you have to type the term in manually and search for it. Similarly, there doesn't seem to be a way to go to an identifier's definition.
+** defunct as of 2024
+* <s>[http://www.laclavedefa.org/codigo_abierto/gambas_tutorial/ tutorials]</s> (English, Spanish)
+** defunct as of 2007; [https://web.archive.org/web/20061012095644/http://www.laclavedefa.org/codigo_abierto/gambas_tutorial/gambas_tutorial_en.html archive]
+* <s>[http://www.linuxbasic.net/ Linux Basic]</s>
+** seems to have gone defunct in late 2013; [http://web.archive.org/web/20130509005418/http://www.linuxbasic.net/ archive]
+** was a forum: ostensibly for "the new breed of Basics coming out for the Linux operating system", but the focus seems to have been mostly (or entirely) on Gambas
 ==Notes==
-* The Help system appears to be wiki-based, possibly feeding directly off the Gambas wiki -- so any errors found can be corrected by anyone, in theory. Not sure how easy this is in practice. (Edit buttons do not appear in the Help app, so you would have to find the correct page on the wiki.)
+* The Help system appears to be wiki-based, possibly feeding directly off the Gambas wiki -- so any errors found can be corrected by anyone, in theory. Not sure how easy this is in practice. (Edit buttons do not appear in the Help app, so you would have to find the correct page on the wiki, and get editing permission from the webmaster.)