--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00011 Date: 01/06/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 03:31pm \/To: DIK COATES (Read 4 times) Subj: VB suggestions.... DC> doesn't use p-code... look at the difference between GWBASIC and QB... good example, thanks. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00012 Date: 01/06/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 03:34pm \/To: CHRIS ROACH (Read 4 times) Subj: API CR> Bucky you've got to have 'deep pockets' to get 'all' the MS CR> apis... Then I'm not understanding what APIs are. In the MSDOS world, one makes calls to various INTs (interrupts) to obtain "DOS" services. I just assumed that calling an API is the Win95 equivalent of calling a DOS Interrupt. Not so? CR> Wanna ~really~ make B.G. rich (?) join Universal Level (4). Of course I wanna make him rich. Poor boy still ain't the richest man in the world, contrary to some folks saying so. Just the richest man in the USA. CR> I highly recommend becoming A MS-Developer Net LEVEL I member. Is that the info that came with the VB 4.0 Pro Edition package? The stuff that didn't make any sense to me before, so I tossed it aside? Guess I better pull it out and read it. CR> The Developer NEtwork is 'The Way to Go' if you can afford a few CR> hundred dollars to get there. Hell, it is only money.... :). Besides, it is MUCH cheaper than dating and magnitudes cheaper than having a wife (not to mention kids). CR> What can I say..'I bought the Company!" %$#@! I get it. Bill G's worth $20+ billion.... and you own him. Impressive. CR> About Code/doc sharing..yes I share a lot but I have to edit things CR> before posting em, since they are 'a proprietory emphasis-orientation CR> and they have copyrighted info I need to be careful of..so as not to CR> 'bum-out Microsoft!' and have them cancel my doc flow... I get it. Thanks. Anything you are allowed to share, I'd appreciate. CR> In other words cut & paste & post is a no-no. It's cut, paste, CR> scramble-encode-decrypt-rewrite-avoid lawsuit...post. Snicker. CR> 16 CR> bit proging is fast becoming history if you ask me. This industry CR> moves at least as fast as Intel..so 16 bit is fading fast. From my brief experience with 32 bit so far, 16 bit is boring even though there is still "a large market out there for it." Thanks again for all your good info. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00013 Date: 01/06/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 03:49pm \/To: CHRIS ROACH (Read 4 times) Subj: VB CAN DO IT ..IF CR> few years back becuase VB couldn't do Callbacks and DLLs can. What is a "Callback"? Is MS making a 32 bit MASM or something like that which can interface with VB? I'm not at all facile with C, but can get by with assembler (never tried any 32 bit assembler yet). CR> so I can't comment on industrial dbase approaches under VB. I'm delving into this area soon. CR> Is VB powerful & useful? The most.... So I'm discovering. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00014 Date: 01/06/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 03:59pm \/To: CHRIS ROACH (Read 4 times) Subj: MY VB JOURNEY CR> Bucky, I learned VB out of the box..and books.... [much interesting history deleted] CR> AS FOR VB sites..there's tons of em...specially on INET. Lucky me, I don't have ftp-type access. The best I can do is internet e-mail and TELNETting. CR> My best ref is MS-Dev Net Cds.... That I can do. CR> Oh ya...I just caught the CR> fifties...1959. Ah. You're just a kid :). --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00015 Date: 01/06/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 04:10pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Distributing Big Projects Suppose I have this application I've written and it is REALLY big. Suppose I want to be come rich and sell this application. Suppose the .EXE file (not to mention the .DLLs) is 3 megs in size and I want to distribute the program on 1.44 meg diskettes. How does one go about this? I'm getting way ahead of where I am in my application creation, but am curious. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00016 Date: 01/07/97 From: JIMM PANIK Time: 12:27am \/To: FRANCOIS ROY (Read 4 times) Subj: OLE Help needed. *** Quoting Francois Roy to Jimm Panik dated 01-05-97 *** > > You cannot OLE-automate something that isn't there! If you don't want > the customer to have to install Excel, use the Graph control, which you > are allowed to distribute with your project. > [------------------------- End of Quote --------------------------] What I was trying to do was insert the Excel Chart Sheet as a custom control instead of using the Graph Control. Is this possible? I thought all that was needed was the actual control from Excel in the finished project and it would be fine. Sorry if this is a silly question, but I'm kinda new to this. I'll get better in time. Jimm --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00017 Date: 01/07/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:37pm \/To: CAMERON BURGESS (Read 5 times) Subj: crxlate16.dll Just flippin' through an earlier issue of the VBPJ... They mention that CRXLATE16.DLL is a bug... and that to fix... you have to edit the SWDEPEND.INI file and change the reference CRXLATE16.DLL to CRXLATE.DLL Regards Dik ... Killing 2 birds with 1 stone often makes the Audubon Society upset! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The KAWARTHA Connection, Omemee ON, Can. 705-799-1160 (1:253/2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00018 Date: 01/08/97 From: DANILO MAGALHAES Time: 09:23am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: professor For all Preciso de professor particular de VB. Favor msg pvt. []s DM --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: CentroIn! +55-21-205-0281, 41 lines, 24h, RJ/Brazil (4:802/21) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E1C00019 Date: 01/08/97 From: JOHN TOMLEY Time: 03:25pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Passing a value from form to form I hope this is not too simple but I am Just Starting with VB4 /16bit . What I need to do is have three forms and on the first form (General- Declarations) declare a variable as a public Integer ie 0. On loading the second form . Select and object and give it a value ie 2 on the third form take the value of the public variable ie 2 and use it to perform a task I cant seem to get the value of the public variable to be transportable from form1 to 2 to 3 Any help would be appreciated --- GEcho 1.12/beta+ * Origin: The InterACTive BBS - Canberra ACT - (06) 253-4933 (3:620/243)