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11-06-2003, 03:00 AM
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Writing a VB-program, it runs only on Windows-machines.
I want to write a program which I can use on a SOlaris (Unix) machine.
Is that possible with VB?
Or should I use VC++? Other options?
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11-06-2003, 03:34 AM
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you can run your database on solaris, and connect from v.b if you wish. V.B. will only work on windows. If you want multi-platform code, you should use jave, available from www.sun.com
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Writing a VB-program, it runs only on Windows-machines.
I want to write a program which I can use on a SOlaris (Unix) machine.
Is that possible with VB?
Or should I use VC++? Other options?
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11-06-2003, 04:21 AM
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Except for Java all other languages are OS specific.
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11-06-2003, 10:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rettnuc
Writing a VB-program, it runs only on Windows-machines.
I want to write a program which I can use on a SOlaris (Unix) machine.
Is that possible with VB?
Or should I use VC++? Other options?
I'm not familiar with it myself, but I hear a lot of our programmers talking about something called QT which is a development environment that can build code for multiple platforms. I don't think that it works with VB, but I really don't know the details. I think it's made by a company called TrollTech - see what you can find |
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11-06-2003, 10:13 AM
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Or, you can (if you have it) use Delphi/Kylix
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11-13-2003, 08:10 PM
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REALbasic will get you to Linux
>> Writing a VB-program, it runs only on Windows-machines. I want to
>> write a program which I can use on a SOlaris (Unix) machine.
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>> Is that possible with VB?. Or should I use VC++? Other options?
No, that is not possible with VB or VC++.
However, REALbasic looks and feels similar to VB. The current version compiles native applications for Windows and Mac. Linux support is coming early next year. Support for Solaris has not been announced, but would not be a stretch once the Linux work is done.
They have a free VB-to-RB converter and a 10-day demo on their website. If you buy a license (or subscription) for their current version you can beta test their Linux support.
http://www.realbasic.com
> Except for Java all other languages are OS specific.
That is not at all true. In fact, most languages are NOT platform specific. (Examples:C, Pascal, SQL, Python, Perl). OS-specific languages got that way by the willfull intention of their creators. There is no "natural law" that forces everything except for Java to be OS-specific.
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11-14-2003, 02:24 AM
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What they are compiled to is OS specific and the usage of the User Interface is different.
There are different UI controls on MS Windows, OS2, Gem, X, MacOS etc etc
So creating a generic UI can not be easily done without some development system like Java
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11-14-2003, 12:11 PM
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As far as I have seen, it takes a lot of effort from the beginning of a project to make it compile on multiple platforms without lots of edits for the port. I've seen only 1 project do it successfully; it was an insane amount of work for the two guys working on it to keep a little tiny 16-bit console app working on both DOS and Linux. While Java UIs feel bad (at least to me) its really the only way at the moment to have a multiple platform program without a lot of extra effort.
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