>I like Gambas because it uses QT for the graphic library and I like QT.
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I think both of these lang's could be used to produce great programs. Including complete accounting systems.

There are some shops in the engery patch here that still use (home made) MS Quick Basic for their accounting engines. They even use ACT files for/

Before we had GUI xBase, a friend and me played with ATT's "Targa" board and interfacing APIs on UNIX and DOS. The DOS xBase command set (as well as FOXBASE) had syntax that would load the targa GUI and font drivers into the xBase runtime. It was not that difficult to get a a fairly cool interface with images fonts and all those little GUI things.

I have a dBase V (32 bit - never opened) for DOS/UNIX (not the 16bit Visual), that has controls like text buttons, radios, etc. It would seem that something like the Targa APIs(or the QuatroPro GUI engine, evun, API), could be ramped up. As far as features, text dBase V for DOS is not that out of sync with VFP. It's fast - opens a bunch of tables - it can do anything except the visual classes.

Maybe we don't need a "grand" out of the box VFP like GUI. Just some GUI objects that a very powerful text xBase can implement to get the affect.