[nickpsecurity]

One idea I had for a VB6 clone is prototyping of GUI's for deployment in any language. Obviously, just for simple, utility-style apps or web pages. The concept is to throw together a GUI, use VB6 to make it look right, save the form to a file, and convert that file into another GUI library.

Since I've been learning Python, I decided to try to prototype this idea with a naive VB6 to HTML conversion. The way its done maintains the properties of the controls so any backend could be used. The HTML is semi-useful templates at the moment.

Here's a temporary link showing each step:

https://pastebin.com/E5eqKp23

If it doesn't already exist, you could make this easier with an Export as XML (or JSON) option that supports easy parsing by any language with a XML/JSON library. They can use a list or tree depending on how they want to compose things.

From there, people wanting to build on it would have to add controls to your project (or placeholders for them) that match their own libraries.