[GAP Forum] First VisualGUAVA release

[Sergio De Los Santos]

As I indicated months ago:

http://mail.gap-system.org/pipermail/forum/2005/000348.html

my intention was to build an interface for GUAVA. Right now it is just  
finished. I'm proud to announce the release of VisualGUAVA, a graphical  
interface for GUAVA.

VisualGUAVA is my "end of degree project" and is intended to make the use  
of GUAVA and even GAP, much more confortable, with grids, an easy database  
with functions and much more.

VisualGUAVA is programmed in VisualBasic, sorry for hard linux users. I  
have not tried to run it on wine or any other way to port it to Linux. I  
hope someone could tell me if it is possible.

VisualGUAVA is completely in spanish, and has to be recompiled to change  
it. I will work on it in the future.

VisualGUAVA is specifically intended to be used as a tool for college  
students who use GUAVA for subjects in relation with codification of  
information, but can be used for anyone who wants to have a better  
experience with GUAVA or GAP.

Fist release is numbered as 0.6.2, wich indicates it is not considered as  
stable version yet. It is quite possible it has lots of bugs, and maybe  
some changes has to be made about "ease of use". I will work on it and try  
to assume every suggestion indicated or error found.

VisualGUAVA is (so far) under Creative Commons License.... absolutely free  
of charge, but no open source (so far) just because code is a little mess  
yet, and not well commented.

For anyone interested (can understand spanish or not, the program is quite  
intuitive) you can download it from http://visualguava.tk (web still under  
construction).

Please enjoy it and make any suggestions you wish, is the only way to  
improve the program. As well, anyone who wants to contribute with some of  
his/her time translating help files is welcome.

-- 
Sergio de los Santos.