Gambas Learning Guides

Book 2: Building simple GUI applications

This second book of the Gambas learning guides will continue where book 1 left off.

Each book will start with a theoretical explanation of design concepts useful for you as a developer to comprehend. It will become a useful reference and overview of the discussed topics.

The focus will be on building GUI applications starting from a preset of requirements, going into design, coding, testing and finally, distribution. The projects will start simple, efficient and functional, introducing new controls, functions and methods of approach. Some new components will be introduced and demonstrated. Gradully, some more complexity will be added to the projects.

For each project, attention will be given to different aspects of form design, layout, user navigation, menus and toolbars.

There will be background information for a better comprehension of discussed topics and lots of Gambas code.

At the end of book 2 you should be capable of building different kinds of GUI applications and have a greater insight into many subjects touched upon in Gambas Book 1 and Gambas3 in general.

This book has been written (finished December 31st, 2025) and is currently being tested and proof read by the Contributor team and reworked by me.

Some visual impressions

Prerequisites to get started

A clear chapter overview

Richly illustrated with informative screenshots

Online references get opened in a seperate overlaying window

Highlighted code in example code boxes

Extra challenges to enhance the application you build and test your skills