Gambas

Gambas, a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means basic, is a free, open source programming language for software development. It is an object-oriented BASIC variant with a complete IDE. You should make the advantages of Visual Basic also available under KDE and Gnome, but is Gambas - unlike commonly said - not equivalent to Visual Basic, even if the two languages ​​have much in common. This is mainly due to the elimination of the so-called ActiveX controls that have been replaced by your own objects in Gambas. So existing " Visual Basic" projects are not without importing another. Gambas is on to C ajar as Visual Basic. This is evident for example in dealing with files that are opened as in C as a file descriptor.

Gambas for PDAs is mainly based on POSIX and Qt.

Gambas is open source and is licensed under the GPL. Gambas has been developed since 1999 by Benoît Minisini. The current latest version is 3.5.1 (13 November 2013). Gambas is available, among others, in French, English, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese and German.

With Gambas, you can programs with a graphical user interface ( GUI) development, are attributed Qt and GTK to build GUI support. Access to databases such as MySQL, SQLite or PostgreSQL is supported by default. Via the integrated SDL binding can be multimedia applications and games write. In the current version 3 D-Bus is supported so Gambas programs can be integrated into current desktop interfaces (earlier versions instead support DCOP, that only with KDE3 running).

The surface of the IDE itself is written in Gambas - BASIC. Since version 0.99 to RPM / DEB packages for Debian and let offshoot (Ubuntu), and ( only in version 4.x RPM) create all common RPM distributions.