WinFBE vs Firefly

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Maybe a silly question.

But why the need for WinFBE if you have FireFly for Freebasic?

Best regards and have a nice Sunday.
Marc

[Paul Squires]

Hi Marc,

If you are creating visual GUI based applications then FireFly is the easiest path to accomplish that, however a lot of people create console based applications and using a code editor (like CSED, JellyFish, etc) is easier for those tasks.

I still use JellyFish a lot when using FreeBASIC especially when writing tools and classes that I eventually end up using in larger scale applications created in FireFly.

Having said that, my long term plans is to eventually extend the WinPBE editor to have a visual designer built in. By that time, FireFly will no longer be needed as much and I will be able to somewhat retire it (as you know, FireFly is built using 32-bit PowerBASIC and is not open source).

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Hi Paul,

That confirms what I thought. Thank you.

Best regards,
Marc