I'll throw this out since noone else has... with Java you have your choice of multiple free and commercial IDEs that run on Windows and Linux. You could develop on Linux OR on Windows and then deploy on either or both. I am familar with both JBuilder and Eclipse. Both are excellent IDEs, however only JBuilder will give you a Visual Basic like experience, because the last time I checked Eclipse did not have a GUI painter. http://www.borland.com/jbuilder http://www.eclipse.org I feel the need to point out that Java compiles considerably faster then C/C++. On a decent PC there will be a hardly noticeable pause for a small application. I personally would not leap from the Java camp to Perl/Python camp because of compile time worries. There could definitely be other reasons though. One drawback to using Java is the standard GUI toolkit, Swing, is quite a bit more complex than Visual Basic and even QT. You could also use IBM's GUI toolkit SWT, but I have no personal experience and thus cannot comment. As an aside, I have experience with the KDE/QT IDE KDevelop, but I think you will be dissappointed in it since you are used to Visual Basic. It's definitely better than VI though! :) Mike Bresnahan -------- Quoting Patrick McCabe <patrickm at citilink.com>: > I have been using Linux for a few years now, but all my software > development has been for Windows (MFC and VB). We finally have a > customer who wants to use Linux. > > What tools/development environments are available for developing GUI > apps in Linux? Favorites? > > What we need to do is not very complicated -- something comparable to a > simple VB app on Windows. > > Thanks > Patrick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list