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Being a VB6 developer primarily I could never switch to PB (or for that matter Xojo) as I am personally used to using plethora of available ActiveX controls in the market like Xceed, Infragistic, Chilkat, TX Text Control, CodeJoke Suit Pro, ImageEnX and RC6.

And none of these are available in PB. Nor are they available in Xojo.

Not only that but there are no libraries in either PB or in Xojo that even comes close to what I use in VB6. Take for example ImageEnX. For all my image processing needs I use it exclusively.

I did play a lot with PB but never got around to build any commercial app on it.

Yogi Yang wrote: Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:08 pm And none of these are available in PB. Nor are they available in Xojo.

Chilkat is available for PB:
https://www.chilkatsoft.com/purebasic.asp

Yogi Yang wrote: Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:08 pm Not only that but there are no libraries in either PB or in Xojo that even comes close to what I use in VB6. Take for example ImageEnX. For all my image processing needs I use it exclusively.

That library looks very complete, I don't know nothing similar, but you can use the internal libraríes to do many things and another external libraries to do more complex tasks, like:
OpenCV, FreeImage library, etc...

Caronte3D wrote: Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:02 pm That library looks very complete, I don't know nothing similar, but you can use the internal libraríes to do many things and another external libraries to do more complex tasks, like:
OpenCV, FreeImage library, etc...

But that would mean learning a hell lot of things just to get the right set of functionality and then trying to get all the different libraries to be able to share the same image data among them.

This would prove to be a nightmare.

IMHO, no Language or Framework or IDE is perfect, you must use the most good for you and then trying to solve the carencies.