Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Date: 15 Oct 2025 21:24:20 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10c908i$3600i$2@dont-email.me> <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10cg2nd$1dscj$5@dont-email.me> <10chrko$1ujff$1@dont-email.me> <1NucnWt3DZqBMHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cig9g$23kb8$2@dont-email.me> <10cjsig$2gp1i$2@dont-email.me> <34ecncooOcDVeXP1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20251015090025.0000151f@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net prBPpsxlJbWbmHhYStnRswoj7Rt0BAe6xEtFM4VMNqB8zPG3CX Cancel-Lock: sha1:9jkpHR7G01qyYRuJXAiWmGnUWQE= sha256:GIJCxi8yJaD6GbgaGTltTS5sIKlvmfcwugDxhjE/ipM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76207 On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:00:25 -0700, John Ames wrote: > VB's biggest strength was that it combined a well-known, accessible > language with an extremely straightforward UI builder, and did it some- > thing close to "the right way round," presenting methods as browseable > and editable components of the UI objects they applied to rather than > making you dig through an object definition in a source file in search > of the appropriate callback function.* Especially back in the Bad Old > Days of Win16 programming, it was far and away the simplest way to go > from zero to functioning GUI application.. WinForms grew out of VB and has survived despite Microsoft's repeated attempts to kill it. QtDesigner isn't too bad for a drag and drop visual editor.