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- From: steve@puter.demon.co.uk (Stephen Gathercole)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic for Amiga - A possibi
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:09:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <2005.6424T952T2717@puter.demon.co.uk>
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- >Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >: In a message of 13 Feb 96 Stephen Gathercole wrote to All:
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- >: SG> From: steve@puter.demon.co.uk (Stephen Gathercole)
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- >: SG> Exactly, this guy knows what I am getting at. M$ Visual Basic makes
- >: GUI SG> development, and programming so much easier. For example, User A
- >: wants SG> to makes a simple GUI-based applications on both PC and Amiga,
- >: on the SG> Amiga he has to work out IDCMP codes, When a mouse has been
- >: clicked, SG> etc. But on the PC he just has to put the code in the
- >: relevent section SG> (i.e. Mouseclick to check for a single mouse click)
- >: and the software SG> does the rest.
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- >: Huh? On the Amiga this has been possible in ACE BASIC (freeware) for
- >: a long time. Windows, buttons, gadgets, etc. No IDCMP pointers here...
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- OK, I'll check that out. It sounds good.
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- >I follow your point, BUT -
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- >Visual Basic is AWFUL. I have to use it at work at the moment, and it is the
- >main cause of my over premature hair loss. It is terrible! A typical M$
- >product. I've not seen ACE but I shall check it out ;-)
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- >If there is to be a Visual Basic style package commercially available for the
- >Amiga, it woul have to use the Intuition interface etc. to the full. It
- >might then be worth using :-)
-
- Right, most people which have replied to this have stated VB is AWFUL, and in
- terms of code-generation, size, speed, yes, it is. The actual language content
- however, I find easy-to-use. The other one I was talking about, Delphi, is
- faster, produces proper compiled code, offers more features than VB.. but,
- it's Pascal. Perhaps its me being stereotypical of Pascal, but I hated it when
- we did it in A-level computing (oh yippee, its pascal today) and I can't see
- it changing that much over the space of 12 months. I can use C++, E, Basic, I
- can even envisgage using ASM, but not Pascal, please no!!
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- So what I'm looking for it VB's language, with Delphi's features. Visual E
- anyone?
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