I have used VB for several decades because it is indeed very easy. Indeed, my son - now a senior software engineer with Amazon - wrote his first program in VB3 when he was six years old. And I do like to embarrass him and bring him down a peg by posting screen shots from those early programs on Facebook whenever he boasts about his latest achievement :-) On 9 November 2015 at 15:59, Neil wrote: > Here again, I never knew about this -- always thought Qt was a GUI API > for Linux. Will investigate. > > In the meanwhile though, I have tried Monodevelop and console apps and > Winform apps went smooth, but a GTK+ sample failed, apparently due to > issues with Windows 8.1 not processing paths properly. > > I also tried Visual C++ and all went well, but since it also installed > VB, I thought I'd try that, and it was *very* easy. Within a couple > hours I was able to get a basic serial terminal example coded and > running. Code is much cleaner to read, and considering how many books, > and online videos/tutorials there are on it, I'm leaning that way right > now. > > Cheers, > -Neil. > > > On 11/6/2015 10:24 PM, Sergey A Dryga wrote: > > Neil, > > for cross platform development I would suggest QT framework. I have > > developed for Linux and Windows using it, it also has support for andro= id > > and other OSes, although I have not tried that. > > > > Serial port communication is trivial to setup and is platform independe= nt > > (withing limitations of the platform, of course, e.g. baud rate > selection). > > > > Best, > > > > Sergey > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 __________________________________________ David C Brown 43 Bings Road Whaley Bridge High Peak Phone: 01663 733236 Derbyshire eMail: dcb.home@gmail.com SK23 7ND web: www.bings-knowle.co.uk/dcb --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .