--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2W00002 Date: 02/25/97 From: EILEEN LOUISE Time: 09:40am \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 5 times) Subj: Programmers without Limits Hi Bucky, Bucky Carr to Eileen Louise on Friday February 21 1997 EL>> all in all, the funnest thing about being a programmer is you can EL>> do whatever you want :) BC> I want to fly.... bitblt and a whole lot of math --- Flying Pond Software * Origin: fine tuning insanity ... do not disturb (1:326/431) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2W00003 Date: 02/25/97 From: EILEEN LOUISE Time: 09:42am \/To: MICHELE MAURO (Read 5 times) Subj: Mouse vers Trackball Hi Michele, Michele Mauro to Eileen Louise on Monday February 24 1997 MM> Do you need to tap with the fingertip or will a fingernail work MM> okay? Mine aren't extremely long, but that's what I'd be tapping MM> with. i suppose a fingernail would be okay, but i honstly don't know. i suspect you might find it unnecessary once you got the hang of the glidepoint. it is so gentle that you could probably use a pencil (eraser side down) instead of a finger. --- Flying Pond Software * Origin: fine tuning insanity ... do not disturb (1:326/431) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2W00004 Date: 02/27/97 From: GARY SONNENBERG Time: 12:39am \/To: STEVE MASHBURN (Read 5 times) Subj: Mouse Buttons -=> Quoting Steve Mashburn to All <=- Hi Steve, SM> I know how to use MouseMove but what I really need to do is to be SM> able to tell what chord the user is using on a MouseDown or Click. SM> I am designing a tutor for playing the trumpet. The trumpet has three SM> valves and a three button mouse would be an excellent input device. SM> Right down I am using MouseMove to set the mousebuttons to the trumpet SM> fingerings but the user has to move the mouse which destroys the SM> illusion that he is fingering a trumpet. Is there any other way to do SM> this? Would a movement of an invisible frame beneath the mouse cause SM> MouseMove to trigger? The MouseDown and MouseUp events have an argument called Button which you can use to detect which button was pressed. If you are using VB4, you can use the constants vbLeftButton, vbRightButton, and vbMiddleButton to help out. Otherwise the values of the buttons are 1, 2, and 4 (same order as above). I believe you can also use these in combination like you do in the Windows Minesweeper game. That way you could handle notes such as A for values 1 and 2. I'm not sure I understand your whole concept above, but this should get you started in the right direction. Gary ... Go straight to the docs. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200! --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2W00005 Date: 02/27/97 From: GARY SONNENBERG Time: 12:48am \/To: DIK COATES (Read 5 times) Subj: Printing Problem -=> Quoting DIK COATES to EILEEN LOUISE <=- Hi Dik, EL> this necessity (autoredraw for print) exists only in the load event. EL> loosely speaking, it is because the objects aren't visible yet. at EL> the start of load, the form and its controls exist, but they are not EL> visible. this masks certain behaviors. DC> Forgot to mention that you have to specifically set it as the file to DC> load, thanks... DC> Not sure what you mean by the load event... but it can be called from DC> any procedure during run time... DC> OK... but after you write some text to a pic box, you can set it to DC> false, add some more text to a picbox and the new text will not print DC> until you re-set it to true... DC> What I haven't tried yet is to change the picture and printing during DC> runtime... but, it should work... Has anyone mentioned putting your drawing code in the Paint event? Gary ... Reality-ometer: [\........] Hmmph! Thought so... --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00000 Date: 02/25/97 From: FRANS HERSBACH Time: 07:12am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: VB30 - print preview Hi guys, I'm busy constructing a (simple) baseball batting statistics utility, and it would be nice if I could present a print preview of the various printouts that this util will be able to spit out. Now each of these printouts will be 1 printerpage only, never several pages. So, all I need is a preview-routine for 1 page. Preferrably one you can zoom in/out with in various size-settingss. I already have an example for a multiple page preview but it's a not-yet-finished-routine... Also, how can you change the current printer's orientation from portrait to landscape, and vice-versa? And (now that we on that subject) in what way can the select printer be changed? A routine that will start Windows' own printer setup will be fine (no SHELL-routine if possible please, or is that out of the question?). Thanks for any info you might have for me! Greetings, Frans FidoNet : 2:282/610.15 Internet: fjh@worldonline.nl .!. If you can't make it good, make it expensive. --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: With Terminate YOU can beat the feeling! (2:282/610.15) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00001 Date: 02/26/97 From: CHRIS ODGAARD Time: 03:54pm \/To: STEVEN LAGER (Read 5 times) Subj: RE: BY: Steven Lager to Chris Odgaard on Monday, February 24, 1997 6:14 PM SL> Chris, SL> SL> and how does one get a copy of this .. I have WIN95 user's that ha SL> looking for something other than cmpQWK . http://snboot2.netshop.net/q/qmain.htm ... No fuss, no muss, just mailreading bliss! --- [1;-35mQ - The QWK Mail Reader for Windows [V2.0-5]  * Origin: Smooth Noodle Boot - Kamloops BC Canada aRf (1:353/715) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00002 Date: 02/26/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:58am \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 5 times) Subj: Baker's Dozen Beginner's >>>> QUOTING Bucky Carr to Dik Coates <<<< BC> Have you considered Fortran :)? Not for 30 years... but, there's little to be gained... the PDS math library is the same as MS's Fortran math library... and, it's not half bad... The only thing I could improve on... was matrix stuff... I did it up in ASM... and a buddy of mine has PCAPL language... and my ASM library blew his away... but, you have to declare the arrays properly you can't use a float*float if the real data is float*integer... a bit of a problem... but well worth the speed... Regards Dik ... "So she said it was either her or the ham radio... OVER" ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v1.38a * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00003 Date: 02/26/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:58am \/To: CHRIS ROACH (Read 5 times) Subj: CALLBACKS AND MASM >>>> QUOTING Chris Roach to Dik Coates <<<< CR> Dik, I'm pretty sure you have the skills to put your assembler to CR> good use in vb, esp if you have Visual C(++). I'm not an expert c CR> proger by any means, but it would seem that without much effort you can CR> plug your assembler routines into a c dll. Hooking a c dll to vb is Will have to look into what's involved... might even skip the C and see if a DLL can be done in ASM... Big problem is that a lot of ASM stuff is system related... and, I'm not sure how it flies... Right now with VB... just cuttin' my teeth... and tinkerin' with half a dozen things... last weekend, was into tab stuff... and found that you can have a series of control arrays for two or more tabs... the same ones and keep the textbox data in separate dimensioned arrays which are selected by the tab value... confused yet! Saves a lot of programming if you have several tabs with same/similar objects... for example txtValue().txt can serve several tabs (must be in the same location) and the benefits of using a single _losefocus to handle all the txtValue().txt's... Will see if I can drop by the ASM echo... been years since I've been there and pose a couple of simple questions... Regards Dik ... "So she said it was either her or the ham radio... OVER" ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v1.38a * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00004 Date: 02/26/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:58am \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 5 times) Subj: VB niceties (wish list) >>>> QUOTING Bucky Carr to Dik Coates <<<< DC> I didn't find C that difficult... cut my real teeth in Assembly... BC> Assembler is fun! At least you didn't end the sentence with a series of ??? Reards Dik ... CRIPPLEWARE: Pay the registration fee, or we'll break your legs! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v1.38a * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E2X00005 Date: 02/26/97 From: BRIAN SCHWARTZ Time: 01:57pm \/To: PHIL MORRISON (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: C++ PM>Sounds like you might be able to help? Got your address, I'll send it within a week or so. Brian * SLMR 2.1a * It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0507 * Origin: The Electronic Grapevine [707] 257-2338 (1:161/910)