Anyone know a Visual Basic Type language

[m0gsi]

I'm thinking of starting to program again. I used to code a lil in rapidQ which is now dead :( (i liked it!) and i'm looking for a visual basic style programming language that is cross platform and has an IDE and can easily code GUI.
Any ideas?

I downloaded Kbasic and i compiled one of there example programs and it didn't load , also you have to pay for the full version .

[xtacocorex]

Try gambas, I think it's in the repos.

I've never used it, but I think it's very similar to Visual Basic.

[prizrak]

Java sorta fits what you want. It's fairly complex though but small programs stay fairly simple. There is also the Mono project so I suppose you could use VB .Net with it.

[m0gsi]

Well java is over kill for what i want but this gambas thing is looking good lol, still alot of learning but i can see what is going in the examples , which is what i liked about rapidq.

Thanks anyone using gambas on the forum?

[m0gsi]

Ok theres a problem when ever i try to build some example code it get.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
ERROR: #2: Cannot load class 'FBrowser': Unable to load class file

[Dragonbite]

Yeah, VB is not heavily supported in Linux.

Gambas (http://gambas.sourceforge.net/)is one of the few VB-like IDEs which is free.

RealBasic (http://www.realbasic.com/) has a Linux version and for a while was tossing around a free Linux version (don't know if they still are)

There is the Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page)VB.NET implementation previously mentioned.

And then there is KBasic (http://www.kbasic.com/) which is fairly new and I have no idea how well it works. There is a paid (Professional) and free (Personal) versions available.

I've been wanting to do some programming myself but my background is all VB-like but now I'm going to be getting into VB.NET at work so I'm looking forward to using Mono at home so as to maximize my self-teaching!