IDE - similar to Delphi

[fruitbat!]

hi does any one know a simple easy to use IDE that's simialiar to Delphi I know this sounds sad but I do a good sad when it comes to programming. :p :D

[ph34r]

kdevelop maybe?

[Hayl]

wasn't borland making a version of delphi for linux at one point?

[fruitbat!]

I tried the trolltech one but I couldn't get the hang of linking signals to events etc. I was used in Delphi - you clicked or double clicked something and wrote an event call or handler in pascal or visual pascal which is quite easy. However it is totally different in the trolltech one. so I was a bit lost on how to sort it out.

[blingbling!!]

wasn't borland making a version of delphi for linux at one point?
Yep, It was called Kylix, and it's absolute poo!! There are a few pascal/linux things around, although they won't be exact replicas of Delphi on linux. The last thing I heared about was a .net thing that runs under mono IIRC.

[fruitbat!]

I would be interested to hear more about .net thing if possible but yes it was kylix I think that I was talking about. I never really had a chance to work with it. Does the .net thing have much to do pascal at all. Call me sad but I think that I found pascal quite easy to use and play with. Unless somebody can suggest a similar language for linux. :D :D

[blingbling!!]

.net is a 'common language runtime' (CLR) which means you can compile many different languages to the same intermediate code which the CLR executes, hence you can write pascal for .net as long as you have a compiler to compile your code to the CLR. (mono is an open source implementation of a CLR) I can't find the mono delphi thing, but i'm sure a bit opf googling will take you in the right direction (as I remember is was a commercial product - costs ££!!!). There are other pascal libraries for Linux - try Open Pascal.
I used to write code in Delphi, and I thought it was quite good (apart from those silly begin----end blocks, and the wierd rules for when you can and can't ommit them). You should write code with whatever you feel most comfortable!

hth
--Robin

[ajdearson]

This had the advantage of Pascal or C++ (as I remember) ie CBuilder-like or Delphi-like depending on how it was invoked.