SpiderBasic

I'm new to Spider. Is there a form designer for spider. Maybe I missed it..
I have some screens with a lot of gadgets and it's a lot of work calculating all the positions and properties.
Can I use Pure basic form designer to create forms. Or maybe ice Designs.
Not sure if there is a spider form ...

This is more of a wish list.
Will spider ever consider using html.
I write a lot of business applications. Most only have 300 to 1000 web users.
Counting pixels for location and size for layouts is time consuming at best. Especially when you make additions and changes that change the whole design ...

This may be my answer. As a newbe, I'm in a learning curve and have a lot to learn. Spider seems to have a lot of options.
I'll give it a try..
Thanks for the help.

I have code to display a page of data with a heading, and search fields in a html <table> . I'm new to spider, so maybe there is something to handle this. The proglem is when displaying the table with html there is no way to use things like buttonGadgets, so I use html "<button onclick=..... Then ...

I'm testing a php program to spider. In php I have a list of persons. When some fields from SQLite are larger than 20 characters I list them in a <textarea> that is 1 line and 20 characters. The user can streatch the <textarea> down and across to reveal more of that text area.
How do I do that in ...

SpiderBasic does an excellent job compiling BASIC to client-side JavaScript/WASM, and the JS interop is powerful.
However, for developers coming from other RAD environments, one gap becomes apparent as applications grow:
Event handling remains largely manual and JavaScript-centric.
Today, UI events ...

One of the problems with business applications is the many client options, and databases.interface.Keeping track of states in many languages eventually turns code into spaghetti. Thank spider for that.
I'm using spider html and php for database interface. JSON just added another layer.Will spider's ...

Is there an example of opening a SQLite db and acessing it? This is my first try at using SpiderBasic. To accomplish access to the DB, I wrote a program in PHP to access the SQLite DB. In SpiderBasic I send a request request = HTTPRequest(#PB_HTTP_Get, "http://localhost/person_api.php?personNum ...

My first SpiderBasic program.
I get errors in SpiderBasic whan I try to open this SQLite database. What am I doing wrong?
The error: "Bas parameter type, number expected instead of string"

The code:

If OpenDatabase(0, "C:\rbp101\projects\foodbank_project\data\foodbank.db")
Debug "Database ...

Thanks for the help. I'm going to study pure and spider some more.

Is there a book somewhere I can get. I'm about as smart as a rock when it comed to pure and spider.

I always like basic. people knock it. But I can pick up a basic program and understand it. Other languages not so much, especially ...