Introduction

Gambas is an Open Source Rapid Application Development environment for Linux which is based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™. Note however that GAMBAS is not a VB clone and will not run VB code, it is an original Linux Application.

With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any languages, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, and so on.

'Gambas' is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means Basic. Gambas is also the word for prawns in the Spanish language, from which the project's logo is derived.

Developed in Paris by Benoît Minisini since 1999, Gambas is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence. The current version as of September, 2009, is 2.16.0

With Gambas developers can:

* Use databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
* Build KDE (QT) and GNOME GTK+ applications with DCOP.
* Translate Visual Basic programs to Gambas and run them under Linux.
* Build network solutions.
* Create CGI web applications.

Gambas is designed to build graphical applications programs using the Qt toolkit or the GTK+ toolkit; the Gambas IDE is written in Gambas itself. Gambas includes a GUI designer to aid in creating user interfaces.

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