[Gambas-user] Strange behavior of Items on panel

[Kadaitcha Man]

2009/12/29 norarg <norarg at ...2311...>:

> (Ubuntu 9.10/Gambas 2.13)

Take this with a bucketful of salt, but from my experience, you're
better of with Gambas 3 and Qt4 on Ubuntu. I use 9.10 x64.

Ubuntu uses GTK+, but Qt is far better. You need to consider
installing Qt4, the latest Gambas 3, and if you do that then you need
to covert your app from GTK to Qt. Depending on what you have done so
far, that may be as simple as a library reference change to Qt4, or it
may mean the creation of a whole new app and lots of copy/paste. Been
there, done that.

I was quite surprised when I moved my app to Qt4 on Ubuntu, it really
did look, "as designed". If "as designed" is what you realy need, then
go Qt4, and forget GTK+.

The point is, IMO, you can only get so far with GTK+, and if you want
better then you need gb3 and Qt4. That becomes an even more important
point when, as I did, you discover that GTK is trying to do things it
was never designed to do.

As an Ubuntu user, I'd be really happy if Benoit trashed GTK support
and only offered Qt support. IMO (again) Qt won the war ages ago.

Yes, there may be heartache ahead, but looking at the gb3/Qt4 app I
have in front of me, which came from VB dotNET 2007, heck, gb3/Qt4 is
sweet.

All that said, you should at least upgrade to 2.18.

Here is the source for 2.18:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gambas/gambas2-2.18.0.tar.bz2?download

Here are the instructions for an Ubuntu 9.10 installation:
http://gambasdoc.org/help/install/ubuntu?view

You can install gb3 side by side with gb2. Just follow the gb3
instructions here:

DAMN!

Benoit! You gotta stop using frames, man. I can't give the customer
the link he needs.