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Windows 8 apps
Post by KenDown on Dec 10th, 2013, 4:32pm

I don't know if anyone has any information on writing apps for Windows 8 - or better still, transforming already existing programs into aps?
Re: Windows 8 apps
Post by admin on Dec 10th, 2013, 5:59pm

on Dec 10th, 2013, 4:32pm, KenDown wrote:
I don't know if anyone has any information on writing apps for Windows 8 - or better still, transforming already existing programs into aps?

This isn't a particularly good place to ask that question, but I suppose Microsoft would say 'use Visual Studio 2013'.

Richard.

Re: Windows 8 apps
Post by KenDown on Dec 10th, 2013, 6:40pm

No doubt - but I did have in mind using BB4W! I am not up to writing anything complicated in C+!
Re: Windows 8 apps
Post by admin on Dec 10th, 2013, 7:11pm

on Dec 10th, 2013, 6:40pm, KenDown wrote:
No doubt - but I did have in mind using BB4W! I am not up to writing anything complicated in C+!

I think you can use Visual Basic to write Metro apps. It seems unlikely that a Metro version of BBC BASIC will ever exist.

Edit: Indeed I don't think a BASIC interpreter could ever meet the requirements of the Windows App Store, because executing code not actually part of the app is specifically forbidden.

Richard.
Re: Windows 8 apps
Post by KenDown on Dec 10th, 2013, 8:06pm

That's a shame. Are compiled programs still interpreted?

Incidentally, just to change the subject, if I wrote a BB4W program that used only BASIC commands and not any of the SYS calls for Windows features, would it run under Linux?

Just wondering.
Re: Windows 8 apps
Post by admin on Dec 10th, 2013, 9:57pm

on Dec 10th, 2013, 8:06pm, KenDown wrote:
Incidentally, just to change the subject, if I wrote a BB4W program that used only BASIC commands and not any of the SYS calls for Windows features, would it run under Linux?

If you avoided all the BB4W-specific extensions too, there's every likelihood it would run on Linux using Brandy.

And of course BB4W itself will run moderately well on Linux using Wine.

Richard.