[Gambas-devel] Re: Gambas and Visual Basic

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 12 March 2005 23:16, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.
> Could we get the discussion moving again?]

I thought we could continue the discussion on the devel mailing-list of 
Gambas, as many other people already use Gambas for translating Visual-Basic 
projects, and so may have better ideas than mine.

>
>     I think the better way to start such a huge thing is writing a VB
>     project -> Gambas project translator, by implementing a few needed
>     features directly in Gambas (like paramater passed by reference),
>     and all other VB specific stuff in a component. The translator
>     will tell wich lines of code can have some problems.
>
> Would you like to write a file describing your ideas for how to do
> this?  That would help recruit people to do the work.
>

I sent you in a last mail an OpenOffice document which describes the way I 
think it is possible to use Gambas for translating VB projects. Was it too 
short ?

As I tried to say before, directly compiling VB source code in Gambas, Java, 
or any other bytecode does not solve the big problems: calls to external 
Windows DLLs, use of ActiveX controls and objects, use of ActiveX automation. 
That is the important things people using VB need to translate!

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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