IMHO inheritance and polymorphism is vital for a powerful, extendable and easy to use GUI system

A lot of monitors have 1280x1024 which is 5:4

A circle will look circular as long as the resolution has the same ratio as the monitors native resolution.

If you want to please everyone, allow them to resize the window (like openttd for example)

Gambas does not produce native executables like freebasic/c/c++, it's sort of like java.

Useless in my opinion. Programs written in VB6 would be among the last I would install under Linux.
If you need a quick way to develop a desktop GUI application, there is gambas, very similar to VB.

Why do you use pointers? In the C example it's just a simple array.

When you want build a large program and still be able to happily read the code you've written after say 5 years, you use OOP, which unfortunately freebasic isn't to good at.

BTW: have there been any major updates in the compiler regarding OOP in the last two years?

Haven't used FBIDE for a while now.
Is it the same version on which development stopped a few years ago or did it evolve?

Sorry if this doesn't sound to optimistic, but someone who is willing to mix C++ and FB at such a level is highly likely to just use C++ and drop FB, at least from an OOP standpoint.

Programming evolves over the years.
Did you check if there actually is a duplicate definition in that code and try to fix it? QB might be just ignoring it.

Compile the library as a .dll and make sure the functions you export for fb don't return or ask for variabiles from stdc++

It is sent as it is generated. You can try it out by pipe'ing the output from a traceroute

Look for "open pipe"

http://www.google.com/search?q=download ... =firefox-a

The fb package would be to big if all these dll's were included.