--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00000 Date: 02/02/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 04:52pm \/To: DIK COATES (Read 4 times) Subj: Newbie DC>the book I'm going through now... Using Visual Basic 4 by DC> Webb, et al... is quite good... I'll add that to my list, thanks. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00001 Date: 02/02/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 04:54pm \/To: WILLY JANSEN (Read 4 times) Subj: FileExists WJ> I wrote a little function a while a go. WJ> -- WJ> FUNCTION FileExist% (File$) Thanks! Same function I've used over in PDS. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00002 Date: 02/03/97 From: PHIL MORRISON Time: 08:56am \/To: DIK COATES (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: uudecode >>>>> QUOTING Phil Morrison to Philip Black <<<< > PM> phil m age 69 TODAY. > Happy birthday, ya ol' codger... and many more... > Regards Dik And may you also be blessed! phil --- DB 1.58/004516 * Origin: Think & Reply (1:3642/504) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00003 Date: 02/03/97 From: PHIL MORRISON Time: 05:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: cough I have all the manuals and installation discs for BORLAND C++ ver 3.0 1991 Installation disk no. 5 "coughed" and I could not read it. Have 300 megabytes free on the HD. I don't know if the thing has ever been registered. Guess I'll call BORLAND and find out. ??? THEY still support ver. 3.0 ??? If not, perhaps one of you might have it, and might be willing to send a copy of the ?? defective disk #5. ??? I know nothing about C phil m wa4axo@juno.com also. Phil Morrison, MD 209 Amity Drive Bristol, TN 37620 423- 968.5522 PS I've saved quite a lot of helpful hints from ya-all re: VB Many tnx. --- DB 1.58/004516 * Origin: Think & Reply (1:3642/504) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00004 Date: 02/03/97 From: WILLIAM HURN Time: 09:18pm \/To: MICHELE MAURO (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: TextBox data entry/edit/re-edit -=> Quoting Michele Mauro to Rick Pedley <=- MM> I learned a long time ago that trackballs are not designed for game MM> play! I had a lot of trouble trying to "run" down hallways in Doom and MM> could never make it to that dern secret room with the falling MM> partition that you had to time "just so" to get through. Combining MM> the trackball (for turns) with the cursor keys for speed, I _almost_ MM> made it, but never quite was fast enough. Do you prefer the trackball to the mouse for desktop publishing and/or graphics? How about spreadsheets or word processing? I've thought of trying one but that Kingston or maybe Kingsington (looks like a que-ball) is about a hundred bucks. Kind of a "hit" if you have a problem getting used to it. They seem fairly big with the Mac crowd, especially those that "ink" for a living. --- * Origin: D.M.U.G. BBS Dayton Ohio (1:110/69) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00005 Date: 02/06/97 From: JIM BROADBENT Time: 09:25am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: bullet-proof problem As I said in previous posts VB is new to me. It is nice to make everything pretty with such ease but the DOC's.......!!! Anyway I digress....... I am learning by making simple forms first. So I created a form to perform a simple investment calculation with text boxes for data input for Principal, Interest rate and investment period. I defined Principal as a currency variable and Intrest rate and Investment period as single precision variables. I used ISNumeric to determine if the string entered into a text box is a number or not. It's a nice simple function and certainly simpler to use than what I used to do in QB4.5. The error detection line of code is simple enough: IF NOT ISNumeric(txtprincipal.text) then ............................... the dots represent what follows the If statement such as a message box to advise the person of the problem and exiting the sub program. ANd it works well. So I turn the routine over to my young son....who takes pride in trying to crash my work (BTW I have other statements to catch an overflow error). At first he is frustrated since the ISNumeric catches all of his attempts to mix characters and numbers...even entering "23.45.5" is flaged as non umeric. Then his eyes light up as he entered " 123,2.89" This was accepted. Actually you can put commas anywhere and they are ignored. Is there someway to flag this Regards Jim --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: RASCAL Calgary, Alberta (403)686-2550 USR V.Everything (1:134/122) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00006 Date: 02/06/97 From: JIM BROADBENT Time: 09:04am \/To: FRANCOIS ROY (Read 4 times) Subj: Rounding Hi Francois; JB> crunching. I find no assistance in rounding or JB> truncating numbers. CINT and JB> FIX seem to be missing. INT seems to perform as JB> normal....but assigning a FR> The functions you want are listed together in the FR> manual. Look for 'CCur' (the first function, FR> alphabetically). Fix was around in VB3; I don't FR> have my VB4 books here... CINT is certainly in VB4.0 but it doesn't perform the same function as it simply converts a text box string to an interger number. It is not a rounding function as such. FIX is not in VB 4.0. CCur simply converts text box string to yield a number with 4 decimal places....but if you want to round off the number to 2 places there doesn't seem to be any function to help. Assigning the number to an integer seems to perform a CINT type rounding after first multiplying by 100 and then assigning it to a single percision variable and multiplying by 100 again. As far as FIX is concerned, I guess I would have to use string functions such as Left and Right on a text box. This is fine I guess if the number is in string form but awkward if it is numeric...guess convert to string then is Left/Right functions and convert back to number. I am very new to Visual Basic and am having trouble adapting to these diferences. As I progressed up the BASIC ladder up to this point anyway the math functions were at least consistant. Regards Jim --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: RASCAL Calgary, Alberta (403)686-2550 USR V.Everything (1:134/122) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00007 Date: 02/04/97 From: GERALD PAPE Time: 10:58am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: ping Hello all, How can I ping from VB 4.0 32bit ?? Is there a ping OCX available, or can someone help me with API Declares to do the ping myself ??? thanks for Infos Ciao Jerry --- FIPS/32 v0.98 W95/NT [M] * Origin: REALITY.SYS not found - reboot universe ? (2:310/65.80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00008 Date: 02/03/97 From: ANTONY MAWER Time: 09:53am \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 4 times) Subj: VB4-32 Problems ahhh, 32MB. Anyway, someone else told me to use RegClean to fix it, as he had the same problem and fixed it with RegClean. L8r Antony mawer --- Fmail - The City BBS * Origin: The City BBS Sydney Australia -> V.34 (3:711/410) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2B00009 Date: 02/03/97 From: STEVEN LAGER Time: 08:53pm \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 4 times) Subj: Newbie Answering a msg of , from Bucky Carr to Kurt J. Tischer: Bucky, I carry a full complement of VB files; those that come down the PDN network and those that I cull from about 10 to 15 VB sites on the Internet. If you can do F'req's requesting "FILES" will send you the most current filelist for my system (refreshed every night). BTW the VB (32bit) Knowledge Base can be gotten from here. Steven Lager Sysop - The THIRD WAVE On-line Service 1:253/234@fidonet.org 100:1019/1@gds.net lager@usa.net --- * Origin: The THIRD WAVE On-line Service - Shotgun Pro 1.38a (1:253/234)