Doug,

I tried this back channel and got a bounce...

Anyway, in response to a later note you wrote...one month.   Don't know if
you can do that, with what I am proposing, but working full time at my real
job I did my port between March and Aug.


> I'd be happy with Quick
> Basic if was updated to run in today's environments. Anyone have any
> experience with True Basic Silver or Gold?

I am writing backchannel.

I'll make a last plug for Delphi.   I know it is Pascal, but I find that
once you get the idea that:

for x= 1 to 10
whatever(x)
next x

looks like

for x=1 to 10
 begin
 whatever[x];
 end;

and that a function gives a result and a procedure is like a FB FN that does
not have a result...

I find that I can translate from FB to Delphi, on my laptop, in the car, and
carry on a relatively alert conversation with my wife.   My main app is
16,000 lines, and compiles in about 15 seconds on a 600mhz iMac running
Virtual PC.   I cut and paste a fn at a time.  Code size is very similar.

Dimming in FB^3 is very much the same.

Delphi is OOP, but building windows (forms) is just drag and drop.  A button
is a component (a huge record) with all manner of properties.   You name it,
choose a font for it, highlight it, and react to its other
properties...mouse hovering, mouse clicking, etc.   Double click it and
start writing code to react to it.

Debugger runs right in the editor.

These guys were making lightening like single pass compilers years before VB
was ever thought of.

Don't get me wrong, there is a great deal to learn, but I think much of that
is Win and the file system.

Here is a piece of code that gets user input in a typical database:

(Don't worry too much about the TStudentDBWnd... it just relates to the form
(window)  99% of the time this is generated as you build the form.   I
rarely pay any attention to it.)

Procedure TStudentDBWnd.GetStudentInfo(Sender:TObject);
var
studentID:integer;
begin
StudentID:=gStudentIndex[gStudentId];
gFirstName[StudentID]:=FirstName.text;
gLastName[StudentID]:=LastName.text;
gAddress[StudentID]:=Address.text;
gTown[StudentID]:=Town.text;
gState[StudentID]:=State.text;
gZip[StudentID]:=Zip.Text;
gPhone[StudentID]:=Phone.text;
gIDNumber[StudentID]:=StudentIDT.text;
gBirthDate[StudentID]:=DOB.text;
gParentName[StudentID]:=Parents.text;

if RadioButton1.checked=true then gGender[StudentID]:=_Male
 else gGender[StudentID]:=_Female;
end;


and the same one in FB

LOCAL
DIM studentID

LOCAL FN RetrieveStudentData'Receive data from Window Closing

studentID=gStudentIndex%(gStudentID)
gFirstName$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myFirstName)
gLastNAME$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myLastName)
gAddress$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myAddress)
gTown$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myCity)
gState$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myState)
gZip$(StudentID)=FEDIT$(_myZip)
gParentName$(StudentID)= EDIT(_myParentName)
gPhone$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myPhone)
gIDNumber$(StudentID)=EDIT$(_myIDNumber)
gBirthDate$(StudentID)=EDIT $(_myDOB)

IF FN pGgetGroup(_MBtn)=_MBtn THEN gGender%(StudentID)=_Male ELSE
gGender%(StudentID)=_Female

END FN


In the Delphi code:

FirstName.text   shows the text property of the edit field FirstName
you have properties like .enabled  .visable  .MaxLength  .readonly
.taborder


I am no expert, but can help get you started.
-- 
Best Wishes,

George
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