[Gambas-user] Is it GAMBAS for me? (an ex-VB programmer)

[Fabien Bodard]

Le Samedi 03 Septembre 2005 22:08, Eduardo Patto Kanegae a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I just discovered GAMBAS project and found it absolutely incridible!
>
> But I'd like to clarify my vision about it before trying it up.
>
> I used to code using Visual Basic 6 but a few years ago I just gave it up
> because a lot of troubles(lot of VB bugs, VB does not have enough
> functionality...so,
> u need tu buy ActiveX, and the main thing: I really prefer free/open
> software)
> and then, since 2000 I left desktop programming and went to web programming
> with PHP.
>
> When I stopped to VB, the main reason was about GIS(geographic information
> system) components...
> VB GIS third party components in that time exists but too expensive.
>
> Today, there's a lot of free GIS API's(suchs as
> PROJ.4,ShapeLib,GDAL,OGR,etc...)
> and it's easy
> to use these ones on C, C++ projects..But there's also a lot of Python or
> Java projects running fine with these tools.
>
> Will I be able to use one(or more) of these C/C++ libs within a GAMBAS
> projects? Or do I need to wrap the lib as a GAMBAS component?

I think you need to wrap it yourself... 

> And about drawing(not processing) maps on GAMBAS? Should I create a
> "canvas" component base on a picturebox?
There is maybe 2 way :

-Create it as a sub componant like gtk or qt, 
- Return a picture and manage it by pos


> or maybe build a GAMBAS component base on a rendering engine?(such as
> "Cairo" )
hum ... i don't know




> best regards.