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Many years ago, I enjoyed coding our work-based application with VB5 connecting to an Access database. I've been retired for 10 years, and would now like to do something similar. But I'm now using an Apple Mac, so VB and Access is out, unless I go down the route of Parallels, which will be expensive.
I have looked at Python, but it appears to be used for creating rather simplistic text-based apps. What I would like to be able to do is what I did with VB, for example connect to a database, draw a form, and drop onto it text boxes, buttons, drop-down lists, etc. I don't see anywhere where Python lets me do this. If it does, how?
I also loved the coding associated with VB5, which seemed much more intuitive than languages such as C etc. Any advice gratefully received.
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My experience has been (and you'll have to forgive me, folks, because i'm sure it's limited) that rapid application development with all the wysiwyg form editing and such is the primary domain of windows.
I think apple had like, CodeWarrior that may have had some RAD stuff in it but all the open source offerings I've seen are junk.
Visual Studio (which includes VB.net) was and still is the best RAD IDE on the market, just like it was when you left the fold.
I'm pretty disappointed actually. You may want to ditch VB and just move to C#. You can write .NET apps that run anywhere these days - linux, android, wherever but VB is the red headed stepchild of the .NET language family.
all of this is my $0.02.
I'm out of the field like you, but still code a lot.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I think you missed the OP ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I most certainly did. I responded prior to proper caffeination and fully upright state. Apparently my humor hadn't engaged yet. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I know the feeling well!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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those poor folks over at Image-Line, still coding in Delphi.
They make a great product though. I wonder how they manage?
their stuff runs on a mac - well some of it does. not sure if they're using ex-borland stuff for any of that though.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Windows laptops can be cad for 1/2 a song. 
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Ron Anders wrote: Windows laptops can be cad for 1/2 a song.
But, can they be cam for another half ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Yes. I posted after waking and and took off. - just got back. <facepalm>
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I think ... coming from VB ... if you use Visual Studio, and C#, to create WinForm Apps, you'll feel somewhat at home. And, some of the WinForm Controls will feel very familiar ... because they are, under-the-hood, old COM Controls.
Why not do WinForms using VB.NET ? I considered it, but it it looked like a giant mess to me, compared to the mean-lean beauty of C# 
But, check out Apple's latest dev offerings ... I am long out of touch with their tools.
You wanna get multi-platform ? Consider web-apps, Xamarin in Net, etc.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 27-Jul-19 16:04pm.
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Watching my hubby try to shop is like him watching me trying to change the oil.
Maybe he's defective. I wonder if he's still under warranty?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Good comparison! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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do you come in 32-bit?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Actually I took that moniker when 64-bit was new and shiny. I guess it's not so novel anymore!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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"Richard Andrew Embedded"
has a nice ring. but it makes you sound like a journalist
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Good one! Or maybe "Richard Andrew IoT" 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for the job,
... and I'm the first (or if not first I'll be the the loudest) to admit I'm the wrong tool for grocery shopping.
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that's fair. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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lopatir wrote: I'm the wrong tool for grocery shopping
Careful you may find yourself out shopping for furniture, clothes, towels (linen I think) and other horrible things.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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you're on to how i think.
*sideeyes you*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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What is unusual about the way he shops?
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I send him to the grocery store and he returns with things that are quasi-edible.
and motor oil.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Did you send him with a list?
Lists are good.
Although, be careful, once I was given a list with "Mini eggs" on it, so being near Easter, I got the chocolate kind, The savory type were expected 
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