Gambas Learning Guides

Book 3: Some more simple GUI applications

I created this third book of the Gambas learning guides as Book 2 simply got too long, so I decided to move content planned for Book 2 to a third book.

As with the other books, you will start with a theoretical explanation of concepts useful for you as a developer.

The focus in this book will still be on building GUI applications, starting from a preset of requirements, moving into design, coding, testing and, finally, distribution. The projects will be kept simple, efficient and functional. The book will introduce new controls, functions and methods of approach, and, just like in the previous book, some new components will be introduced and demonstrated.

The book will introduce interfacing with command-line applications and learn you to integrate the power present on Linux into your applications. For that working with streams will be introduced, demonstrating different sorts of streams present in Gambas. Some Gambas scripts will be created for demonstrating all this.

Further attention will be given to form design, layout, menus and toolbars and more, all to improve the look of your applications.

Background information for a better comprehension of discussed topics and lots of Gambas code are obvious parts of the Gambas learning guides series.

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

This book is currently being written.

A sneak preview

Planned content

Prerequisites to get started

Chapter 5 - work in progress

GambOS application you learn to build:

GambOS Image Viewer

GambOS Code Editor

GambOS Screen Recorder