>>>Your next VB app may do just that, J.
>>>A "KBasic" development team has just formed to create a VB GUI RAD clone (native, not ported) on the KDE platform, using the Qt widget set. Although it will be written 'for' KDE it will, as usual, run on GNOME or any other desktop, if you have the Qt-Free library installed.
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>>Yummm... I long for the days of an IDE like VFP/VB's where you can just drop in objects and compile on the fly...
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>mmm... Have you tried KDevelop? VERY nice IDE

Are these just editors or IDE's for a particular language?