GUI Programming

[Dagda]

Please don't bit my head off but is there a programming tool for Linux that is like Visual Basic?

[scanez]

Visual Basic is a language, if you are asking if there are IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) to code in, then yes there are. There is kdevelop among others for C, and I forget but there are some for other languages. Search freshmeat or google for IDE, or integrated development environment...

[kmj]

Depends on what you mean by "like VB"..

If you mean you need a language that can be used for RAD (rapid application development), then look at python. Python is supa-cool, neat & clean, fun, and lets you build a gui with code damned fast.

If you mean something that lets you easily build gui's with a drag and drop interface (I assume vb can do this similarly to c++/mfc): then check out QtEZ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtez/)

If you mean hacked up and crappy, then yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of them, but I won't point out anything specific.

[tnordloh]

If you're a Java guy, there's always Forte For Java... You can put together a nice interface pretty quick with it. I personally don't love the code it generates, but it's fast, and not hard to clean up...

[nanode]

Regarding java IDEs:

I recently downloaded Oracle JDeveloper.
It's still beta and seems a direct competitor of Forté. At first glance it didn't seem as polished as Forté, but I need to play with it more.

[Dagda]

I'm looking for something that is easy. In VB I can get an ocx and make some little program fast. I don't want to be a programer but I sometimes need to make simple little programs.

[Gnu/Vince]

Check This out... (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Python/visualpython_ss.html)