PUREBASIC FILE EXISTS FOR FREE

PUREBASIC FILE EXISTS FOR FREE

not due to: 'there has to be some evil money-making-plan behind it' (because the RC5-libs are out there for free already for over a decade now, always freely available for everyone)īut instead simply (if you're true to yourself): not due to: 'what if it's abandoned' (because you will always have that 'last working binary', which has less bugs and is 15years more recent than most of the MS-OCXes you currently use). not due to: 'big dependency': (because 2.5 MB regfree deployable extra-content in your App.zip is not really worth mentioning these days) not due to: 'missing documentation' (which is not true at all, since there's extensive code-coverage with quite voluminous tutorials, if you'd only read it) I guess you know, that I'm working on a platform-independent VB6-compiler, which will incorporate the RC5-Classes as its new runtime-class-library?īut that is a bit beside the point (I know very well, that I have to show something in that regard at some point in time) -īut even if the new compiler and new IDE will never come to pass - the above questions (1 to 2.2) are still valid ones.Ī last question (which I don't expect you to answer, but maybe it will make you (or dilettante for that matter)Ĭould it be, that all the 'objections' against the RC5 are: Let me ask you a few questions (which you hopefully will not avoid to answer):ġ) Do you see much of a future for VB6-based sources?Ģ) If the answer to 1) is 'no' (as I guess) - then what should experienced VB-users like you recommend to Newbies to invest their time into:Ģ.1) learning more OpenSource-lib-APIs, especially when usable over comfortable COM-Classes (to be able to 'apply this new learned stuff' also in other languages or on other platforms)Ģ.2) or 'just keep going' (learning Win32-APIs, which no other community on this planet is using in App-Code anymore, since everyone else is working through platform-abstracting frameworks) I don't doubt Olaf's knowledge and commitment.Thanks, I guess. I do think if many of us are going to move to PureBasic it still needs one plugin to make it more like VB6, and that is the reason I am posting it here. We have a really BIG vb6 community here and I think if many of us moved to pureBasic, our obsolete issue will be solved, not to mention our dependence on MS. I think if a simple gui plugin is written for easy event editing in GUI like VB6, purebasic could be the cross platform vb6 we have always wanted. I think (olaf correct me) that vbrichclient may even work in purebasic. Here is my point to bring this up to you guys. Some of the BASIC syntax is a bit different but pretty close to vb6. The main thing the PureBasic GUI IDe is lacking is the RAD double clicking on a control to add code. Event though im not an OOP disciple I did miss classes but luckily found a plugin SimpleOOP which integrates classes into PureBasic ( and along the way I now under stand how C++ evolved from c to include classes structs with vTables) A cross platform Basic style compiler and IDE. In recent weeks a fellow developer made me aware of PureBasic.

I have looked at almost every possible vb6 replacement that is cross platform. Becuase of that, since MS has threatened to drop support for vb6 I have been looking for a replacement. I make a living from my apps written in VB6, it is the most important part of my bussiness.

Purebasic file exists