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KenDown
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Windows 8 apps
« Thread started on: Dec 10th, 2013, 4:32pm » |
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I don't know if anyone has any information on writing apps for Windows 8 - or better still, transforming already existing programs into aps?
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Re: Windows 8 apps
« Reply #1 on: Dec 10th, 2013, 5:59pm » |
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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? |
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This isn't a particularly good place to ask that question, but I suppose Microsoft would say 'use Visual Studio 2013'.
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Re: Windows 8 apps
« Reply #2 on: Dec 10th, 2013, 6:40pm » |
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No doubt - but I did have in mind using BB4W! I am not up to writing anything complicated in C+!
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Re: Windows 8 apps
« Reply #3 on: Dec 10th, 2013, 7:11pm » |
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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+! |
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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.
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Re: Windows 8 apps
« Reply #4 on: Dec 10th, 2013, 8:06pm » |
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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.
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Re: Windows 8 apps
« Reply #5 on: Dec 10th, 2013, 9:57pm » |
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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? |
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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.
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