[wellylug] Need to write a program for os x and Linux

[Phillip Hutchings]

REALBasic. http://www.realbasic.com/

I used it back in the 2.0 days (1999!) and it wasn't too bad. Good
things come out of it quite often, and it doesn't have any
dependancies like VB, and is as fast as anything else - it's compiled
to native code, not interpreted BASIC. It's much like VB in syntax -
you can convert VB stuff to RB with little work - and offers a wide
range of controls. These days it uses native widgets, back in v1.0
days it used its own, quite amusing :P It was Mac only then as well,
so it wasn't too bad.

It requires GTK+2.0, Glibc-2.3 and CUPS on Linux. If you can meet that
I would recommend RB.

It is commercial, but it's fairly cheap. There's a demo as well.
You'll need the Pro version for cross-compilation, it's US$400.

There's also a system called Revolution that I remember. I have no
idea where to get it from or if it's free or not. Google may help.


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:39:43 +1300, Mark Signal
<mark at remote-assist.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> has anyone got any suggestions on  an ide that I could use to write a
> small utility with a nice user interface that could compile on both OS X
> and Linux?
> 
> I would rather not use Java and would prefer something with training
> wheels (eg -usable by a non programmer  - like visual basic)
> 
> free would be nice but is optional :)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Mark Signal
> 
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