Posted by Curtis on 02/01/07 03:05

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:44:30 -0800, Kenneth Downs
<knode.wants.this@see.sigblock> wrote:

> colin@byonder.co.uk wrote:
>
>>
>> I need to write a couple of small GUI applications but have never
>> done so on Linux (I'm a C/Delphi programmer on Windows normally)
>
> I came from Foxpro myself in the windows world.
>
> Since you are in a PHP group, here is a PHP answer. While PHP got its
> start
> making web applications, it can also be used to do desktop apps. For
> linux, check out the php-gtk project, which lets you use GTK for the
> screens and widgets and put PHP behind them:
>
> http://gtk.php.net/
>
>
>>
>> I'm fairly conversant with linux but have never written any code for it.
>>
>> I know this tends to be subjective and I dont want a flame war but can
>> anyone suggest the best language to learn to do this with?
>>
>> I'm using Centos 4 if that's at all relevant.
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>>
>> colin
>

PHP-GTK also runs on Windows.

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