News xBasic and xForms and Gambs for Linux

For those of you wanting a good GUI for programming in basic try out xBasic. It can create compiled programs for Linux, or you can use xBasic for windows and attain the same results from the same source code, or you can make libraries or modules in assembly output .s files. All of these designer/IDE are wysiwyg!!

Gambas 2 creates a kind of interpreted tokenized output but has numerous plug-ins for some quite substancial programming.

xForms has come from closed source into the open source community. It is very robust, (used the original trial version back in 1990’s) Output of this GUI WysiWyg is in pure c++ .

You can check out my site at
All Tech Development
for more information. when you get there look under developer->languages->Basic and you will get to the page showing examples.

enjoy!:slight_smile:

I had no problem installing xForms on my openSUSE 11.1 system however, when I try to run it, it errors with libforms.so.1 not found. trying to install this library responds with missing XFree86-libs installation failed. I did find the source for XFree86-libs, downloaded them but can’t seem to compile and install.

The above is a quote from your website. How can you recommend xForms as long as it doesn’t even work on openSUSE?

  1. It’s not a recommendation, it’s a fair response to what is available and some pointers to what has or hasn’t worked. In the case of xForms, they have changed from what I used back in 2000.

  2. I did finally get xForms working on openSUSE 11.1 once the xfree86 libraries finally installed. the openSUSE repo had to be convinced that I really did want the libraries. Now xForms does work on 11.1, and I will eventually get the website up to date.

Good to know, thank you. It would certainly be helpful if you could write a small HOWTO about the installation of xForms after having figured out all the necessary steps. I guess that once this is available someone will package it for openSUSE as it’s GNU LGPL.