From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 8:52:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from BSDpc.geek4food.org (adsl-216-103-105-71.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.105.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE8214DD2 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@geek4food.org) Received: from mega.geek4food.org (mega.geek4food.org [192.168.1.57]) by BSDpc.geek4food.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E9111BC2; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from andy@localhost) by mega.geek4food.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA80653; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:52:32 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow To: Matthias Buelow Cc: Frankie Li , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: replacement for Visual Basic Message-ID: <19991207085232.B79816@mega.geek4food.org> References: <384CBCCB.F3E54A23@lvdi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 03:10:43PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Frankie Li wrote: > > >science classes are done in Visual Basic, which enables > > Not really. But for easier GUI development, you could use tcl/tk, > which per default doesn't have a point&click GUI builder, iirc, Try 'vtcl' in /usr/ports/devel. It's kind of cute :=) > but I think something like that is available for purchase from > Scriptics (the tcl/tk creator, John Ousterhout's company > (www.scriptics.com)). Tcl/tk also has the advantage that it's freely > available so it's ideal for coursework (you only have to pay if > you want one of the addon products that scriptics produces). > And it is also available for Windows and the Macintosh. HTH. AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message