[Gambas-user] Beginner questions

[Daniel Campos]

El lun, 08-03-2004 a las 20:34, Laurent Godard escribió:
> Hi all,
> 
> After many years spent under windows (and mainly VB programming), i 
> switched to linux 10 days ago
> 
> And then i found it !!! Tha Gambas project !! exactly what i was looking 
> for ....
> 
> I'm a developper mainly actually involved in OpenOfice.org. I have some 
> theoritical knowledge of C/C++ and java but i'm not experienced enough 
> to write deep applications ...
> 
> Before diving into Gambas, i have some basic questions i didn't find the 
> answers on the web site
> - is Gambas self contained ? if i want to redistribut my programs, what 
> will i need as dependancies

You should install gambas in the target computer, as all components are
libraries dinamically linked, provided with gambas package, however, you
don't need to install Gambas-IDE  nor Gambas-database-manager. You can
keep hard disk space if you do not install documentation.

> - licensing terms : am i allowed to sell my programs ? i am independant 
> developper and event if i release all my sources under LGPL, am i 
> allowed to work on a gambas project and be paid

Yes, but there are some restrictions. I mean you can use gambas for a
'closed' program, but if you use the graphical part, you should pay a QT
commercial license ( I think it's cheaper than Windows programming
environments :-)


> - any idea of portability of UI under windows schedule ? I red it is 
> planned but is the work going on ? I think this feature would give a 
> huge boost to the gambas project

May be in the future, using cygwin...

> 
> Now i want to speak about the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project
> You may perharps know that OOo allow a lot of language to connect to it 
> (c++, java, python, delphi, VB, perl, php (through com) ...)
> OOo gives a framework for doing this called UNO
> There are a lot of examples (mainly java and C++) that explain how to 
> connect an application do OOo

I think something like the OOo OCX, an OpenOffice component for gambas
would be interesting, but I had never found clear information about
OpenOffice API before you wrote that! Where can I find more? 

> 
> Would it be interresting for Gambas ? Having an entire office suite 
> accessible through a component ? I think (but i'm not sure at all) that 
> only a bridge would be necessary
> I can help giving the right links and guide among UNO, OOo API, ask the 
> questions the the good developpers ... and so on
> The final step would perharps be that OOo include the gambas component 
> by default (but should be released as LGPL)
> What do you think, is it valuable for you ?
> 
> Feel free to ask me for more details and please don't forget my 
> beginner's questions ;)
> 
> Thanks again for this wonderfull project
> 
> Laurent