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Gambas Documentation - How To Get Started
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How To Get Started
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<h3>Installation</h3>
The easiest way is to install Gambas from your Linux distribution.
If Gambas is not yet contained in your distribution then download the distribution
from <a href="http+//gambas.sourceforge.net">http://gambas.sourceforge.net</a>
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<h3>First Steps</h3>
When finished the installation then use Gambas:
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<li>In a terminal window type &quot;gambas2&quot;
<li>Gambas will open, select new project.
<li>Select &quot;Create a graphical project&quot;
<li>Enter a name for your first project.
<li>Find a directory where to put the first project.
<li>Close the tips of the day window.
<li>Right click Forms, New, Forms...
<li>Find the Toolbox window on the desktop
<li>Special Tools are selected, Select the Form Tools instead
<li>Select one of the object, e.g. a button, place it in the window.
<li>Use F4 to display its properties
<li>Double click the button the see the code, which will be executed when you click it.
<li>Enter a code line e.g. <pre><a href="../lang/print+en">PRINT</a> &quot;Hello World. It is now: &quot;;now</pre>
<li>In the project window find the green start button, press it.
<li>An Immediate Window will be created and shows the result of the <a href="../lang/print+en">PRINT</a> command.
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<hr><b>See also</b><br>
<a href="installdebian31+en">How To Install Gambas on a Debian 3.1</a>&nbsp;<br>
<a href="http+//linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article329.shtml">http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article329.shtml</a>&nbsp; - Introduction (english) by Jonas Alvarez<br>
<a href="http+//www.madeasy.de/7/gambas.htm">http://www.madeasy.de/7/gambas.htm</a>&nbsp; - Introduction (german) by Reiner Hoffmann

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