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Kirsten-Duarte · Joined: 15 Oct 2011 Posts: 44

Is there any good graphical IDE for X11 - Puppy available

Like windows knows Visual Basic for example or Visual Studio which enables you to design dialogs and stuff like that?

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Glade for GTK+ is as close as you`ll get in Puppy ( see Glade post in Programming ).

The Gnome WM has Mono, which is .NET for Linux.

disciple · Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2012, 01:36 Post subject:

There are a whole bunch of them - it really depends what language you want to code in and what gui toolkit (GTK/QT/FLTK etc) you want to use. Do you know?
What are you intending to write?
I think depending on what you are using, putting the gui together without a graphical designer isn't particularly hard - the hard part is the code.

Kirsten-Duarte · Joined: 15 Oct 2011 Posts: 44

I had some projects going such as Hieroglyph, a nice text-editor for Windows, but now I want to write it for Isys/305 too, so what would you recommend?

I have found....FOX toolkit, but it doesn't make sense or install or anything, I tried installing Lazarus, which gives an error while trying to install it.

For QT... Does anyone have a link for a .pet

As for Glade.... nice tool but I see no option to compile anything?

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Mar 2012, 18:31 Post subject:

So are you saying you want a graphical interface designer with code generation?
Very old versions of Glade did code generation (which is widely considered to be "bad"), but there is a recent thread here with packages reviving it. I think Sunburnt is referring to that.

What languages are your windows programs written in?

Kirsten-Duarte · Joined: 15 Oct 2011 Posts: 44

Mainly Visual Basic, I am aware of Wine and stuff like that, but I think it didn't work when I tried it.

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Mar 2012, 23:09 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Mar 2012, 23:24 Post subject:

If you want to use BASIC, but not Mono, I believe there are several Linux options which are currently maintained. But I think personally I would try MU's gtkbasic. I think it is a graphical interface designer with code generation. It is small and fast enough that programs developed with it used to be included in Puppy. I don't think anyone is maintaining it anymore, because Mark was focussing on Vala (he was writing a utility to help translate from C# and Windows forms to Vala and GTK!).

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4001 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

I`ve never heard of V.B. working under Wine, it`s just too O.S. imbedded.
MU made a Puppy with Mono and an SFS file of Mono a very long time ago.

There may be a Puppy built with the Gnome WM you could install Mono to.

You may consider BaCon ( BAsic CONverter ), it`s a Basic that`s converted to C and compiled ( like V.B.!).
No graphic GUI builder, but it`s not really needed that badly, one could be written in BaCon though...
It works pretty well, the GUI commands are limited in the number of controls and the properties they have.
BaCon site:
http://www.basic-converter.org/
BaCon forum:
http://basic-converter.proboards.com/

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Mar 2012, 23:51 Post subject:

BTW:
- you don't need Gnome for Mono.
- in theory you can statically compile Mono apps for Linux so people without Mono installed can run them... but I encountered a bug with this (and filed a report of course).

disciple · Posted: Thu 22 Mar 2012, 00:00 Post subject:

Sorry, I thought I mentioned it in the Glade thread, but it was actually a different thread:
If you are interested in Vala, there is a similar program to the old Glade, but for Vala instead of C: http://code.google.com/p/gladev/

Kirsten-Duarte · Joined: 15 Oct 2011 Posts: 44

Assuming I'd write a application with Glade, what does it use as interpreter? Or how to even run the application? lol

I see no option to execute the program at runtime or anything?

As I want to equip my Isys/305 OS with many applications I wrote for Windows, I can redo them on Isys as well, but I need a proper development interface for it lol.

disciple · Posted: Thu 22 Mar 2012, 07:18 Post subject:

The old version of Glade generates C code. The new version doesn't generate any code, just a libglade or gtkbuilder XML file that describes the interface. You can write code to use the XML file in all sorts of languages - bash, python, C, C++, C# (I think), perl, vala...
I haven't used the old version of glade, but I think it is only a gui builder, not a full IDE like Visual Studio. So you would typically still write the code in in an IDE like Geany or Bluefish or Codeblocks.
I think on Linux it isn't really normal for an IDE to have integrated graphical gui builders. Some programs do - I think QT creator, Monodevelop (for some languages), Codeblocks I think for wxWidgets...
But with a glade or gtkbuilder GTK interface for example, you would normally design the gui in the Glade designer, but write all the code in a separate IDE.

disciple · Posted: Thu 22 Mar 2012, 07:21 Post subject:

Oh - I see that some IDEs can apparently integrate with the Glade designer. Try Anjuta... its pretty big though.