[Gambas-user] software developed with gambas

[Rob]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 08:26, Premoli, Roberto [ITPPG/1010] 
wrote:
> Well, gambas is growing fast!
> I am asking: someone out there used it to develop
> a *real* or still only example like snake or tetris?

I've been using it professionally, writing code for my clients to 
use in-house, since about version 0.70. I've built a scanner 
front end, media librarian, a number of database extraction 
tools, basically the kind of stuff you'd use VB for except I 
find gambas much easier to get along with.

I also wrote "pvrec" which is a "watch while you record" program 
for the WinTV PVR USB, and you can find that on freshmeat.  
Gambas is like duct tape for the Linux GUI.  I hope that in time 
the stuff people have been stuck doing in Tcl or similar will 
get implemented in gambas instead.

Since the two examples you mentioned are games, I have 
implemented the beginnings of a real game in gambas, and posted 
it to the list recently, but without SDL for video it is 
unusably slow if you draw the window at modern resolutions.  
Someday it will be possible, but like VB, gambas is presently 
best suited for puzzle games if games are what you want to do 
with gambas.

Rob