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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-[[Computing]]: [[Software]]: [[Gambas]]{{seedling}}
+<hide>
-[[Gambas]] is a programming language and [[IDE (programming)|IDE]].
+[[page type::article]]
-==Overview==
+[[thing type::programming language]]
-* intended to fill the same niche as [[VB]], though not intended to be code-compatible
+[[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]]
-==Articles==
+==Pages==
-* [[Gambas Reference]]
+* [[/authoring]] -- developing Gambas itself
-==Reference==
+* [[/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]
-** includes 2 wikis, a [http://gambasdoc.org/help new one] and an [http://www.binara.com/gambas-wiki/bin/view/G%61mbas/WebHome old one]. The new wiki is apparently written ''in'' Gambas, but lacks a search function (and many other common [[wiki]] functions), and requires an account in order to edit, which in turn requires an email to the author.
+** official documentation (on the [[/wiki|Gambas wiki]]): [http://gambasdoc.org/help/?v2 version 2]; [http://gambasdoc.org/help/?v3 version 3]
-* [[Wikipedia:Gambas]]
+===Reference===
-==Stumbling Blocks==
+* {{wikipedia}}
-* 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.
+* {{wikibooks}}
-* 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.
+===Projects===
-==Flaws==
+===resources===
-* (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++.
+* [irc://irc.freenode.net/#gambas Gambas] IRC channel
-* (Semi-minor) The field-list doesn't pop up under certain circumstances; checking into this.
+===Defunct===
-* (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.
+* <b>[http://howtogambas.org/index.php?page=cedi&type=misc&id=3 HowTo Gambas: Building GUI Applications]</s>
-* The field-list popup isn't smart in certain circumstances:
+** defunct as of 2024
-*# Type me.controlname.field (use a real control name and a real field name)
+* <s>[http://www.laclavedefa.org/codigo_abierto/gambas_tutorial/ tutorials]</s> (English, Spanish)
-*# Move cursor somewhere else
+** defunct as of 2007; [https://web.archive.org/web/20061012095644/http://www.laclavedefa.org/codigo_abierto/gambas_tutorial/gambas_tutorial_en.html archive]
-*# go back to same line, and highlight the "." between "controlname" and "field"
+* <s>[http://www.linuxbasic.net/ Linux Basic]</s>
-*# type "."
+** seems to have gone defunct in late 2013; [http://web.archive.org/web/20130509005418/http://www.linuxbasic.net/ archive]
-*#* (minor) The list doesn't automatically select the field which was there already
+** 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
-*#* (annoying) When you select the field you want, it is inserted between "." and the fieldname that was there before. This follows logically from the editing rules, but is not what we want to happen; the selected fieldname should replace the old fieldname.
 ==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.)