The Gambas IDE is written in Gambas. It comes with the Gambas source .tar.bz2 file.

• Download Gambas, e.g. Version from http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
• Install and compile it according to "Compiling Gambas" page on same server.
• Run Gambas
• Assume you have installed it in ~/gambas2-1.9.28 .

Open Project ~/gambas2-1.9.28/apps/src/gambas2 .

• Press the start Button
• You now see the Gambas IDE running in Gambas. You can open your project ...
• Close it
• Modify something , the background proprietà of one of the forms.