I would agree VB is very good, but if you don't want the overhead of VB/.NET, I'd suggest RapidQ Basic. It is an extremely easy-to-learn home-brewn GUI language. The whole package is very lean (only about a meg), yet it has a decent GUI layout designer and a powerful language. Programs are about 300 KB or so and don't require any other library or runtime. I enjoy it because installation is quick and simple, you don't need to learn how to use a complicated IDE, and you don't need to accompany your program with any runtime.
The only downside is that it isn't supported anymore. However, if all you need to do is quickly program a simple GUI, it's a great little language to play around with.
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I would agree VB is very good, but if you don't want the overhead of VB/.NET, I'd suggest RapidQ Basic. It is an extremely easy-to-learn home-brewn GUI language. The whole package is very lean (only about a meg), yet it has a decent GUI layout designer and a powerful language. Programs are about 300 KB or so and don't require any other library or runtime. I enjoy it because installation is quick and simple, you don't need to learn how to use a complicated IDE, and you don't need to accompany your program with any runtime.
The only downside is that it isn't supported anymore. However, if all you need to do is quickly program a simple GUI, it's a great little language to play around with.
More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidQ