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Manuel

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Friday, November 21st 2008, 8:52pm

RELEASE: Jabaco 1.4.0 BETA - 2008-11-18

Jabaco is a simple programming language with a BASIC like syntax that enables you to build powerful applications on the Java Framework.

Features
  • BASIC to Java Bytecode-Compiler
  • Open Source Framework with many Visual Basic functions and wrappers
  • Jabaco Debugger (over JDWP)
  • Graphical GUI-Editor for rapid application development
  • Source-Editor with autocompletion
  • Java Exe-Wrapper for Windows
Jabaco in action: http://www.jabaco.org/webcast.html

Matthias

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Monday, November 24th 2008, 11:55pm

Nice work

Hello Manuel,

I am a Java programmer and former VB 6.0 user. I read about Jabaco and will try it soon on one of my older projects, I was really impressed of your webcast and the easy use of it. The idea of creating such a tool is very cool. Keep up working on this project, I think you will have a large community very soon...

I wonder if it is possible to "convert" all VB code to pure Java, can you give some details in your documentation. It would be great to understand how it is all done...

Great job already!

Matthias :thumbsup:

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Tuesday, November 25th 2008, 6:00am

Thank you Matthias.

> I wonder if it is possible to "convert" all VB code to pure Java, can you give some
> details in your documentation. It would be great to understand how it is all done...

I think it isn't possible to convert an existing Visual Basic project to Java, or it isn't very smart to do that ;) e.g. how would it looks like if you translate Visual Basic's "On Error Resume Next" to Java's "try{}catch{}".

You are able to convert an existing Visual Basic project to Jabaco - and with Jabaco you are able to compile your projects to the Java bytecode - they are not translated to the Java programming language. Only the JRE is required. Jabaco comes with some very cool features to simplify the usage of Java and to make it more VB-like (e.g. DoEvents, Properties, Error-Handling, Event-Handling, ...). There are also some limitations in the bytecode (e.g. it isn't possible to translate the "Optional-param" to the Java bytecode). It isn't possible to convert all existing projects to Jabaco, but you are able to translate most of them with minimal effort. I'll list some details about that in the next few days.

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Wednesday, November 26th 2008, 12:30pm

Wow, im impressed by this program...

Im already working for some translating in dutch. Can i upload it somewhere ?

Keep up the good work ! 8)

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Wednesday, November 26th 2008, 3:02pm

Hi natcima, thank you for the translation.

> Im already working for some translating in dutch. Can i upload it somewhere ?

General information: Translate Jabaco into your native language

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Tuesday, December 2nd 2008, 1:41pm

Testing the application right now - seems alive and kicking. And even more so now I know there is a Dutch translation on the way.
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Friday, December 12th 2008, 9:30am

RE: RELEASE: Jabaco 1.4.0 BETA - 2008-11-18

Congratulations for your work, Manuel.
I write from Ubuntu Linux. There will be Jabaco's version for Linux?
Thank you. :)

Quoted from "Manuel"

Jabaco is a simple programming language with a BASIC like syntax that enables you to build powerful applications on the Java Framework.

Features
  • BASIC to Java Bytecode-Compiler
  • Open Source Framework with many Visual Basic functions and wrappers
  • Jabaco Debugger (over JDWP)
  • Graphical GUI-Editor for rapid application development
  • Source-Editor with autocompletion
  • Java Exe-Wrapper for Windows
Jabaco in action: http://www.jabaco.org/index.php?page=webcast

Steve

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Friday, January 2nd 2009, 8:10pm

Congrats on Jabaco!

Thank you for continuing this project. I am a hobby programmer (Admittedly, not a very good one) who became discouraged from programming after I couldn't make the leap from VB5 to VB.NET (like I wrote, I'm not that good at programming). I always enjoyed VB because of it's relative simplicity & RAD. Having just discovered this program today (Jan. 2, 2009), it was wonderful to write a program (albeit a very simple one) in classic VB style & actually have it work without having to re-learn new syntax & the whatnot.

My only immediate question is: What is the difference between registering & not registering this program? My apologies if this question was answered elsewhere but I could not immediately find that answer after searching for it on the website & in this forum.

Once again, thank you for this program.

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Friday, January 9th 2009, 4:58am

RE: Congrats on Jabaco!

I am thrilled to have found Jacabo. I have been playing around with it for a couple hours. Since I have programmed in VB6 for years and I also know JAVA it should be fun.

Question: First couple hours with the app but, does this support Derby right off the bat?

BTW, a good place to mention this program is on www.planetsourcecode.com. You can actually create a review of applications and components. That could be a source of a bunch of new users.

BTW, someone mentioned about converting the Jacabo code to JAVA. I don't see why that can't be done using a JAVA decompiler. There are some great ones out there. If the byte code is valid (which obviously it is) there shouldn't be problems decompiling the compiled byte code to JAVA code.

I'd love to see Jacabo expanded in to supporting JSP, JSF, Structs, etc.

Great work so far! I plan on sticking around.

-Steven

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Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 8:41am

RE: RELEASE: Jabaco 1.4.0 BETA - 2008-11-18

Most warm and ethusiastic congratulations!

I haven't seen such a good job since the age of Rapid-Q!

I certainly support the effort and expect the final release, but most
important, THE DOCUMENTATION. Especially the file and database systems
differ from VB, so relevant documentation would be most welcome.


A suggestion:
Arrays of controls should be supported in the final release. Also, one
should be able to change a common property in a multiple selection of
similar controls (e.g. multiple select 5 buttons and adjust their
sizes).

A bug: selecting a control and pressing DEL doesn't delete the control, you have to do it via the menu.

A question: I miss the mid[$] STATEMENT (not the function). Example:

mystring = "abcdef"

mid(mystring,3) = "5"

print mystring

[result] ab5def

How can I get around this?



Congrats again, and many many thanks!!

Frank

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Wednesday, January 14th 2009, 6:33am

Hallo Nachbar

I know that this is off topic.
But my name is Eduardo, live in Argentina, but the maddest thing is that i lived for 4 years in Erlangen, near from Fürt. Is this were you live. I m a vb6 programmer and trying to survive in a new world...
I was looking for a decent vb6 replacement. I started digging in java, but i have a mayor project done in vb6 and re coding is a mayor issue. i 'm going to give your jabaco a nice try, and then give you some feedback.
If you like to, you can answer me in german.
Thanks for nice the effort.
Edu.

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Wednesday, March 11th 2009, 12:07am

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Manuel,


Do you have a date or an approximative one for the next Jabaco release please?

Thanks :)

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