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Programing C++/Java for linux?
« on: 29 June 2004, 12:01 »
First, my background.  I'm pretty proficient with PHP/MySQL, ASP, Perl, and Visual Basic.  But the extent of my object oriented programming with a GUI is with Visual Basic.

I wrote a program for Windows in VB6, and wish to rewrite it for Linux with additional functionality.  The program will store contact information for potential customers in a database.  The database will also contain certain demographic/financial information such as mortgage balance, # of credit cards, home value, income level, etc.  The program will allow the user to query the database and export a list of individuals matching certain criteria, suppressing against people previously identified as being on the state/federal do not call lists or as having innacurate contact information.  I guess my question is actually multi-part.

1.  Which would you recommend as a first language to learn to write a program with a GUI in Linux?

2.  What books or web resources would you recommend?

3.  Are there any prerequisites you recommend I read up on first?

4.  I'm leaning towards a MySQL database because I am already familiar with it.  Would another database be more appropriate for either of these two languages?  Or would another programming language such as Python be more appropriate for a  MySQL database?

Thanks in advance for your opinions and help.
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« Reply #1 on: 29 June 2004, 16:01 »
Moving this to the programming section.

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« Reply #2 on: 29 June 2004, 20:27 »
If it's just a database frontend why not do it in PHP?

Otherwise, does the language you use have to be object-oriented? If you use GTK you could do it in C/C++ or Python; possibly others. If you do it in java then it's irrelevant what platform you're developing it for/on.
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« Reply #3 on: 2 July 2004, 07:04 »
You could indeed write it entirely in PHP.

This mostly depends on how big it is.
If it's big, PHP can be rather slow and cause a very long upload time for your users.  

In that case you could split it in a client(C/C++) and a server(PHP) part.

For the sever part, you can easily mix it with Java ,perl and others (I don't recommend ASP on SQL.).
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« Reply #4 on: 30 January 2005, 12:21 »
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« Reply #5 on: 30 January 2005, 21:27 »
Java does have built-in sql libraries in it.

And this sounds like a custom application meant for merchants, to handle inventory.

Java would be a good choice, seeing as not EVERYTHING should be done in a web browser.

If you need to read up on Java, I reccomend Head First Java from O'Rilley Books. ISBN: 0596004656

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Re: Programing C++/Java for linux?
« Reply #6 on: 2 February 2005, 03:31 »
If he wants a visual interface builder for a language, he could use C++ with Glade.
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Re: Programing C++/Java for linux?
« Reply #7 on: 2 February 2005, 04:36 »
I've looked at Glade...all it seems to be is an interface generator.  You can't generate the actual program code with it.  Is there an entire IDE for GTK/Gnome?
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Re: Programing C++/Java for linux?
« Reply #8 on: 7 February 2005, 06:55 »
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I've looked at Glade...all it seems to be is an interface generator.  You can't generate the actual program code with it.  Is there an entire IDE for GTK/Gnome?


Well.... I thought that that was what he was looking for.  

Anyhow, maybe GNUStep is more what you had in mind.  
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