From: "John" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Hello Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:29:21 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 36 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1060766916 01 11997 3mLcVd7TSbYMec 030813 09:28:36 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT t-online DOT de X-ID: GFaz8aZVre7qJzZ29LKlushRXzwje7rlN9avd5Zjdavqd-RVIOmCUn X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello, i have learned about the existance of djgpp since some months but I had never started 'seriously' too look into it. Now, after I had installed Win2000 again from scratch for various reasons, I find that my Visual Basic disks are corrupted and cant install them any more. I want to take this opportunity to finally 'abandon' Visual Basic. I also don't want di switch to Delphi. What I am looking for is a developing system which : a) is easily obtainable via download (no, its not the couple of dollars that I want to avoid to spend, but certainly I dont want a system which costs over 200 dollars) b) can provide me with .EXE file with all libraries included which runs on all Windows platforms c) allows me to develop a GUI (almost) as simply as with VisualBasic. Do you think I'm right with the choice of djgpp ??? Just as a question, since I am a newby, what would be the advantage/disadvantage/difference in using tcl/tk (which I know nothing about ) ?? Thanx for your answers. John.