vbRichClient RC6

[Joe Caverly]

It would be great if the vbRichClient RC6 could be included/integrated into thinBasic.

Ref: https://www.vbrichclient.com/en/Downloads.htm
Ref: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?897817-Registry-Free-Object-Instantiation-using-DirectCOM-amp-RC6
Ref: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?894955-vbRichClient-(RC6)-amp-RC6-Widgets-Docs-UPDATED
Ref: https://www.vbrichclient.com/#/en/About/

From the Web Site;

Its main-purpose is, to decouple from as many MS-COM-dependencies as possible, with the goal in mind,
to achieve a self-hosting state easier later on, when the accompanying (VB6-compatible) Compiler will lift off.
And if easier to achieve platform-portability (for the Compiler and the new Class-based Runtime) is the goal,
then we need to start working with such a decoupling-framework already in the transition- and planning-phase.

So, the lib offers a modern GUI-Framework which works Vector-based, using the cairo-library under the
hood (no GDI/GDI+ or DirectX here ... and also nothing of the MS-CommonControls.dll is touched).

The other larger part, which is often needed and used within "typical VB-Applications" is easy DB-Access
(usually done over an accompanying Desktop-DB-File in *.mdb-Format). So what the framework also offers,
is an easy to use (and nearly ADO-compatible) replacement for the MS-JET-Engine. This is, what makes
up the other larger part of the accompanying satellite-binary: vb_cairo_sqlite.dll ... the SQLite-engine.

This is a very mature framework.

I currently use it with VBScript for DirectCOM (cRegFree, registration-free COM DLLs),
the StringBuilder class (cStringBuilder),
ActiveScript (cActiveScript),
and others.

Visit https://www.vbforums.com/ and do a search for vbRichClient to see all discussions.

Joe