Hi my name is Fabien Bodard. I'm happy to found a new place to share some knowledge.

I hope Gambas one day will be known less as an exotic language and more as a common one.

Time will say us …

Hello Fabien! I know you from the mailing list! Welcome aboard

Hi All
Nice to meet you in here

Nice to meet you too!

 Hi, everyone!
I am José Monteiro, from Brazil. Gambas helped me so much, so I will try to do my best to retribute.

We are glad to have you with us

Thanks to all of you for joining. The more the merrier!

Hello everyone... Glad to see you all...

Good to see you here JFB!

 Greetings everyone,

I discovered this forum this morning and joined immediately.  IMHO we really, really need a resource such as this for Gambas.  

I spend much of my programming day in Ruby, but became intrigued by Gambas as a language that is simple, yet very elegant.  The biggest benefit of Gambas is the comparative ease of creating those much needed little apps to scratch your own itch, compared to any other development platform on Linux that I have experience of.

Within days, I had half-a-dozen little programs that I still use daily. I intend uploading them to GitHub as soon as I sanitise and polish the code a little in order to remove the signs of my own inexperience in Gambas.  I am learning rapidly though.

Most of the work I intend to do with Gambas in future will be in-house back-end interfaces to databases that drive websites.  Gambas appears to be highly capable of being a front-end interface for databases that can be developed rapidly.

I have plodded along with some frustrations at the lack of documentation and the dearth of step-by-step walk-throughs in using components such as gb.settings.  Let's hope I can learn and help others in the process.

Many decades ago, I learned to program in BASIC using a Sinclair ZX81. Ever since the advent of Turbo Pascal 2.0, I pulled up my nose at BASIC.  Gambas has now changed that forever, but just don't think Gambas is basic, it is extremely powerful.

Casper

You are very welcome Casper!

I have had my fair share of frustration learning several little documented features through the years myself The plan is to use the front page for articles covering such things. You are welcome to write an article on the gb.settings component  

Hi casperl,

Welcome to the site. I also started out with the not so trusty ZX81 with the wobbly 16k RAM pack and the 5 minutes it took to, sometimes, load your program from cassette! Like you I have had some issues due to the lack of Gambas documentation but find there is nothing else out there that can create programs with such ease.

If you are going to publish your programs have you discovered the Gambas Farm? In the IDE go to Tools>Software Farm and have a look at what others have created. You can publish your own there from the menu Project>Publish. You will find a few of mine there.

Have a look at our Snippets http://wordpress.gamba…22/snippets-collection-1/, if you have any to add let us know.

I look forward to seeing more posts from you.

[EDIT] Your post prompted me to create a small program to demonstrate 'settings'. It is on the Gambas Farm. It would have helped me if someone had done something like this.

Thank you for your kind words.

I have started with an Afrikaans translation for Gambas.  Affrikaans originated from Dutch, and is the first language of over seven million people in South Africa and Namibia.  Who knows, one day schools might use Gambas to teach programming in South African schools?

To keep track of the translation, there is a small site in Google Sites ( https://sites.google.com/site/gambasafrikaans/ ) and a Github page containing the present state of the translation. ( https://github.com/casperl/Gambas-Afrikaans )  I will of course utilise the conventional procedure in Gambas to submit the Afrikaans translations,

To the best of my knowledge there is no educational tool in computer science that is available in Afrikaans and Gambas fits the bill exactly.  Since I will also translate the Wiki, this is an excelling project with which to become familiar with all the aspects of Gambas.  I spent an hour (or two) writing a .csv import routine, only to later discover that there is an existing .csv import routine in Gambas.  (Note to self, I really need to spend more time working through the wiki.)

The best way to learn anything has always been to explain it to another person, so lets hope a few tutorials, walk-throughs and sample code will result from this.

One suggestion is that you open a create a topic called `Gambas Advocacy` on the forum where links such as  recent review of Gambas in a Linux magazine can be posted. That would even include any interesting Gambas programs one comes across on Github, Sourceforge or elsewhere on the Internet.

Have a great and productive day working in Gambas!