Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]

Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by sharemywin on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:21AM (#29509498)

I miss VB. it was really easy to use. There are tools out there but you have to pay every month for them.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by kbr2000 on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:59AM (#29510623)

Check Lazarus [0] for Free Pascal [1].

Another viable option would be Visual Tcl [2] for Tcl/Tk [3]. Given the event-based nature of Tcl and Tk, I find it matches well for a methodology like VB provided.

And it's far from the only one I remember (although you'll need to do some research here [4]). For example, Komodo IDE used to have a Tk GUI builder that provided for the same kind of methodology, which has been split off in [5].

Enjoy!

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/

[2] http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://www.tcl-lang.org/

[4] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/GUI+Building+Tools

[5] http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by pjmlp on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:07AM (#29510723)

What is preventing you to use VB.NET with WinForms? Still out there.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by TheRealDunkirk on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:29AM (#29511015)

Yeah. I know VB gets a lot of derision in these parts, but Visual Studio community edition is free, and .NET is free. So it's totally free to write applications with.

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