I coded it together with Fred, so this statement is not true
In fact, it's totally wrong.
The first Visual designer was released on march 17, 2003 as part of PureBasic 3.60
It was coded by me and Fred in about 4 months time.
Because of the heavy use of API, and because the PureBasic version for Linux was not up to date with the windows version, it was never ported to Linux. Actually, we once had a VD Linux version that compiled, but it could only load projects, no gadgets could be added because we had to comment a lot of code to make it compile.
The new version 4, now alpha 15 uses almost no API, because most of it is now replaced by Native PB commands, and because it uses the ASCII PB files to save the projects, this was a very big change. This means the new VD is coded from scratch, almost no code is reused.
Why is it not ready....lack of time.
Just after the release of the first version, i started my own IT company.
This together with my kids, triplet boys age 8 takes almost al my spare time.
http://www.purearea.net/pb/english/meet ... rsheim.htm
Fred noticed this, and promised to work on te VD again when all 3 PB versions would be in sync and up to date....
Also without Fred's help, i found some time the past weeks, and should be able to release the next alpha this year.
Just keep in mind you did not payed for it, and i did not make money of it...
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