REALBasic

REALbasic, provided by REAL Software, Inc., is a cross platform software 

development environment that also provides a very effective path for porting 

Visual Basic applications so that they can run natively on a Linux client. A 

technical white paper is available that provides a description of the porting 

process using REALbasic. The white paper can be accessed at the following 

URL:

http://www.realbasic.com/vb

Here is a summary of that white paper:

 This white paper explains how to port Windows applications developed in 

Visual Basic to Linux using REAL Software's REALbasic integrated 

development environment. It includes detailed code examples and provides a 

road map for how to port (and how not to port) Visual Basic applications to 

Linux. This white paper references REALbasic 5.5.3, a modern software 

development environment that is very similar to Microsoft Visual Basic  in 

terms of the GUI and syntax. It is not intended to provide a full comparison of 

Visual Basic and REALbasic, but rather to show where they are different in 

ways that will impact porting to Linux. It also explains how to make best use of 

the automated conversion tools provided by REAL Software.  

WXWindows

wxWindows provides an open source C++ GUI framework for cross platform 

programming. For more information, see the project Web site:

http://www.wxwindows.org

Some tutorials are available at the IBM Developerworks Web site that explain 

how to use this toolkit in detail:

Looking through wxWindows: An introduction to the portable C++ and 

Python GUI toolkit

 :

http://www 106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l wxwin.html

Porting MFC Applications to Linux: A step by step guide to using 

wxWindows

 :

http://www 106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l mfc

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