Comment Re:Anything unique? (Score 1) 223
BASIC these days is little different from Pascal so I don't see why this is a downside. BASIC is every bit as modern as any other language and structurally equivalent to any modern static language. It's more verbose than C and similar languages, and maybe as verbose or slightly less verbose than Pascal is. Not sure about RealBASIC, but other BASIC dialects suffer from way too many things being a part of the language with custom syntax, rather than a callable function in the runtime. For example the Pset, Line, Circle, Draw functions. But really, any BASIC hate because its BASIC is about 30 years behind the times.
I don't understand why you couldn't get QtCreator working. Qt is easy to install and use on Ubuntu. And the Qt QUI designer is very easy to work with.
I would say that Python + libglade + glade is also a pretty good combination. It's not quite the RAD experience you seem to want, but it is a fast and powerful way of developing GUI apps, thanks go a nice API and Python.