I wanted to quickly sketch a user interface, and usually I resort to pen and paper for the first iterations, but I wanted to try a RAD tool, to see if that was quicker. I had played with SWTDesigner and netbeans, but non of them were really easy to use for this purpose — to much tied to the generality of their tool kits (SWT and Swing, respectively).
I googled for linux and RAD and found Gambas – http://gambasrad.org/. It seemed well thought out, mature and well documented, so I gave it a whirl. In four hours I had had a working demo for the concept I had in mind, including images, movies (animated gif), sounds, timers, buttons and screens.
I used xvidcap to capture a move of the demo since it by default only produces linux executables (guess it should be able to export windows executables since it can use QT or GTK+, both of runs under windows, as far as I remember).
Recommended! Do you have any other favorite RAD tools?
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