To be clear, this is a question, not a posting of a PoC.
You have in your post a lot of abbreviations. Do you mean with "PoC" "Proof of Concept" or "Percentage of Completion"? Both makes no sense in your context.
So, I've been reading the Manuel is MIA
With "MIA" you mean "Missing in Action", right?
and jabaco has been "dead" for quite some time. We haven't seen a new version since 2009 according to the Download page.
Yes. And in 1.5 months Jabaco 1.5.2 celebrates its 5th birthday.
While the framework is ofcourse OpenSource and it has been easy for us that know java to go ahead an extend some functions, I'm curious if anyone has thought about R-Eing Jabaco in terms of trying to fork it in hopes of extending and expanding where Manuel left off. (Hopefully that will bring him back into development too).
There existing some tools, which showing the GUI of Jabaco-Forms, compiling old Jabaco form programs and so on:
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FormViewer.jar ]
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jbaBuilder.jar ]
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JbaCompilerPreview004.jar ]
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http://www.jabaco.org/board/756-small-fa…baco-files.html ]
But the biggest problem is the same problem, which Manuel have: the lack of time. There is nobody with enough time to rewrite Jabaco.
Jabaco IDE can be "decompiled" using a common VB6 decompiler, but of course those aren't 100% and there's more to Jabaco then just that executable.
And it isn't legal. Manuel still wants to improve Jabaco and wants to sell licenses of newer Jabaco versions. He have still plans with Jabaco. And he still pays for the Jabaco.org domain, the server on which it is running, including this forum and so on. And on February he have had updated the forum-software:
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http://www.jabaco.org/board/1101-something-is-happening.html ]
Much has changed since 2009: Windows 7, Windows 8, OSX Lion, Maverick, Android has taken off, etc.
I think, that is the reason, why Jabaco needs a new orientation. To load VB6 projects and to be 100% VB6 compatible is more and more unimportant, because with the time, there are lesser and lesser people, who still developing VB6. The most are moved to VB.net and C#.
On the other side, it is more important to see Jabaco as an easy language for new developers. But new developers with no experience in development needing a lot of documentation. I think, the more time is gone, the more important is a good documentation for Jabaco.
I think it'd be atleast cool of an experience to get under the hood and create a community/fan-made fork of Jabaco.
If you have the time for it, then start yourself a rewrite of Jabaco.
Or of course, Manuel, you could please come back and get this ball rerolling again :-P
As I sayd, the problem is the lack of time.
Don't expect that Manuel answers for you.
He was at the beginning (2008/2009) a very active member in this forum.
But currently he is on the list of the most active Forum-members on the 5th place:
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http://www.jabaco.org/board/index.php?page=MembersList ]
On other projects, the developer of the programs are by far on the first place. For example "Erel", the developer of Basic4Android and B4J. Here the lits of the most active members of its forum:
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http://www.basic4ppc.com/android/forum/members/ ]
Greatings
theuserbl