Here is something interesting I just came across. Someone has made a Visual Basic style IDE for FreeBASIC.

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https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/VisualFBEditor/

Might be a good target for if I want to try porting any of my Gambas programs over to Windows, though I doubt it is nearly as feature complete as Gambas (being restricted to Unix-like systems is my only complaint with Gambas).

Previously was looking into writing a basic form converter between Gambas and Lazarus, but that requires getting used to Pascal.

 So I could not get FreeBASIC to compile anything on Fedora due to an ncurses library issue (might need to build a custom package), but I built this on my girlfriend's Windows 7 install and played around with it. Certainly a lot rougher around the edges than Gambas and not nearly as feature rich, but it seems to get the job done for basic RAD development. I created a quick little test game in it. I would recommend it to people who want a free software visual IDE with BASIC syntax that absolutely need it to be cross-platform (the documentation is currently woeful though, but so was Gambas' when I started with it honestly). Might build a Gambas conversion tool down the road.

Also been playing around with various older/less known BASIC interpreters and compilers from the RPM Sphere repository (yaBASIC, wxBASIC, MyBasic, SmallBasic, SDLBasic, BASIC-265, bwBasic, TinyBasic, tcbasic, nuBasic, XBasic, X11-Basic, the list goes on and on) and testing them with some old QBasic code. Fun times.

 I couldn't get the VisualFBEditor to compile in arch.  Shame I was looking to try it out.  I do use QB64 with Inform gui creator.  The program is a bit old but still works with QB64.  However I had to use the basic code and compile it with QB64.

Did you build MyFBFramework alongside it?

https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/MyFbFramework

That needs to be in its own directory within VisualFBDesigner in order for it to load.

I have not had any trouble getting it to build other than getting FreeBASIC itself set up.

Apparently this was given a nod in The Register.

RAD Basic releases third alpha • The Register

It is still seeing active development. I should try building it on Fedora again.

 I had it working in arch but after a couple of kernel updates it would no longer run. Seems it also runs on an older version ncurses and that is why it won't compile.

When I tried building it on my older Fedora laptop I could not get a current version of FreeBASIC to run. I have ran it on Windows 7 though.

There is now an event driven graphical IDE for QB64 as well.

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QB64.com | QB64 is a modern extended BASIC programming language that retains QBasic/QuickBASIC 4.5 compatibility and compiles native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

VisualFBEditor now comes with a pre-built Linux executable and I was able to get it working with a copy of FreeBASIC I installed from RPM Sphere.

Install script for InForm and QB64.

https://github.com/Fifi-fr/QB64-Inform-vWATCH-install-for-Linux/releases/tag/v33