I'm not aware of any open source ide's for windows, but Delphi Personal
addition is $99 (www.borland.com/delphi).  You can download a trial from
the site.  Delphi/Kylix is vb like, in that its a rad environment.  But
unlike vb, you can get to the metal like c, and access memory, etc...

The Delphi code could then be recompiled with Kylix 2 Open Edition
(free), and work in Linux as a native elf application (if you follow
guidelines for developing cross platform apps in documentation). 

-Bill

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 10:31, Bradley Miller wrote:
> Anyone have any open-source suggestions for writing an application which
> could be used on a Windows box?  With VB it would be a slam dunk, but I
> would like to do it using something else . . . expand my horizons as such.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> (Basically this application would need to "build" a score card so it could
> be sent via a Word or email document.)
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 
> 
>