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

I quote: "The KDevelop-Project was raised in 1998 to build up an easy to use C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment) for Unix. Since then, the Develop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports KDE/Qt, GNOME, plain C and C++ projects.
You can find it at http://www.kdevelop.org
As I said, an awesome tool. It also includes version control, debugger, html help generation, and references to C++ class libraries and api's and Qt class libraries and objects, and an application framework. IMO, it is the best GPL GUI RAD tool for Linux on the planet.