--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00008 Date: 03/30/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:18pm \/To: EILEEN LOUISE (Read 4 times) Subj: Information Needed >>>> QUOTING Eileen Louise to Dik Coates <<<< EL> no, it's just an event. from what you've been saying to others, it EL> sounds like you may have a lot of bloat in this application, but it's EL> really hard to tell withut more info. Yup... each kiddie form is distinct and generally requires unique information... I've set up all the data entry boxes and option buttons and check boxes as arrays to help speed stuff up... Also, interpreted basic is not so quick at doing arithemtic stuff... Also should put a test in to see if there has been a change in the parent... I currently update all the labels based on the value of a parent object, even if there's no change. Regards Dik ... "Why are elves so chaotic?... Brownian motion." ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v2.00 * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00009 Date: 03/30/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:18pm \/To: FRANCOIS ROY (Read 4 times) Subj: DAY OF WEEK >>>> QUOTING Francois Roy to Mike Meyer <<<< MM> P.S. If anyone DOES know of any test dates, (for example, April 1, XXXX MM> was a Wednesday) *PLEASE* TELL ME FR> April 1, 1998 was a Wednesday. Was??? You another Bopper??? Regards Dik ... Heaven's Gate... the *REAL* Boppers... -Dik ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v2.00 * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00010 Date: 03/30/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:18pm \/To: EILEEN LOUISE (Read 4 times) Subj: Info Needed >>>> QUOTING Eileen Louise to Jim Broadbent <<<< EL> main is a good place to do this under many circumstances. displaying EL> a splash modelessly will allow the rest of your code to run "in the EL> background" Sorta got that part right... and that was the intent... Regards Dik ... As Zeus said to Narcissus, Watch yourself. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v2.00 * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00011 Date: 03/30/97 From: DIK COATES Time: 06:18pm \/To: EILEEN LOUISE (Read 4 times) Subj: File encryption using vis >>>> QUOTING Eileen Louise to Phillip Normand <<<< EL> then you compare the two passwords. an exact match is ok, anything EL> else fails. Yup... used to do that... programs had the owner's name as the key and it was embedded as ascii... any change to the key would fail... All output included the owner's name... Only problem with the approach was that a separate key file had to be created for each program... This contained the owners name in plain text and the modified owner's name to use as a test. The test value was a rotation of the ascii name by an increasing number of places, these were then swapped with adjacent values, and then then the binary value for each character was rotated an increasing number of bits... Not foolproof... but, difficult to unravel... Regards Dik ... Common sense is what tells you the world is flat. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Shotgun v2.00 * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00012 Date: 03/27/97 From: JIM FARLEY Time: 10:33am \/To: DIK COATES (Read 4 times) Subj: Information Needed .-> >>>> QUOTING Gary Sonnenberg to Dik Coates <<<< -> -> DC> Can anyone offer suggestions on how to update the form when you -> make DC> it visible? GS> How about a Global Boolean that gets -> checked when a child loads? -> -> Got that already... as IsImperial and IsMetric integers... (Boolean, for -> some reason takes up 2 bytes (same as Integer)) so I'm more used to -> ng integers for switches... -> -> I want calling the child form to trigger the actual change to the labels -> in the child. In this way, I can keep all the (child) form related -> ff totally contained within the (child) forms. I've tried using -> form_load, gotfocus, lostfocus, etc... .Refresh, and a couple of -> others... but, nothing forces the update... -> -> The labels, BTW are a control array... -> -> Any other suggestions? -> -> Regards Dik -> -> ... The early worm has a death wish. -> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -> -> --- Shotgun v1.38a -> * Origin: StarLab! In Orbit, Lindsay, Ont. (705) 328-2954 (1:253/232) -> Try using the OnActivate event for the child forms... And then a ChildForm.Refresh DoEvents() Jim Farley --- * --- InterEcho 1.17 * Origin: Sonny's Garage, McCook Lake SD, 605-232-3170 (1:288/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00013 Date: 03/30/97 From: MICHELE MAURO Time: 01:53pm \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 4 times) Subj: difference from quick 1/2 13:53:0003/30/97 BC> RM> "Bill, if only your wife were a hackerbelle/sysbelle... BC> BC> I didn't know that programming and owning a wife are compatible (boy, BC> am I gonna get it for that). How about owning a hubby instead? As a sysop, I learned to teach hubby that computers were fun and now we "compute together" on our own machines. But when it comes to programming - especially something I write _for_ my hubby, he comes up with the strangest request... "Why don't you just make it do this, or do that," with no idea of what kind of coding he's asking for! And boy... you SURE ARE going to get it for that one! Us women have been programming for quite a while now - I started programming in 1973 - how about you? Have fun, Michele Internet: chaos@ao.net FIDO: 1:363/340 * When you fall on your face, you're moving forward. RoseReader 2.52T P001948 Entered at [COMPLICATIONS] --- * Origin: Complications, Altamonte Spgs, FL 407-297-8298 (1:363/340) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00014 Date: 03/30/97 From: MICHELE MAURO Time: 01:58pm \/To: JIM BROADBENT (Read 4 times) Subj: Info Needed JB> I am not certain that you use Sub Main for displaying a splash screen. I think JB> this is used just to execute code for startup loading of data files prior to JB> displaying anything. Could be wrong though. Like you...I consider myself JB> reasonable at coding but haven't gotten used to the sorting of forms in VB yet. I use the splash screen as my startup screen in the EXE and have it call my MDI form. JB> I finally figured out how to shut down multiple forms when someone clicks close JB> from the upper left form icon. Before that all my invisible forms were left JB> hanging with no way to get at them. That's one of the big advantages of using MDI parent/child forms. You close the parent and all children are closed automatically. JB> Haven't tried this yet. Using MDI looks alot like a windows 3.1 main screen to JB> me or Tiling/cascade windows of Excel or Word. I prefer to be childless until I JB> sort out the rest. I thought that too when I started my first app, but I soon saw the advantages of parent/child MDI forms. I have one main menu on the MDI parent and it calls the children, sorts the database, prints reports, etc. Although it would depend on the type of program on whether MDI would make it look nicer or not... Have fun, Michele Internet: chaos@ao.net FIDO: 1:363/340 * If I didn't bitch, who would? RoseReader 2.52T P001948 Entered at [COMPLICATIONS] --- * Origin: Complications, Altamonte Spgs, FL 407-297-8298 (1:363/340) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00015 Date: 03/29/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 07:26pm \/To: GARY SONNENBERG (Read 4 times) Subj: Columns in ListBoxes BC> It would be nice if I could format the listbox data BC> in a pretty, columnized format. The rest of the ledger procedure works BC> just fine. GS> Is this database records you're working with? Can the ledger columns GS> info be separated so as to be put into multiple list boxes or text GS> boxes? As usual, I ask the question and get the solution elsewhere. The data is in individual fields so that part isn't a problem. Also, if I'm willing to use only fixed width spacing rather than proportional, I can make it work, but am very limited as to font size allowed. This morning I got a bunch of routines that another guy has worked out the details of making columns with listbox data. I'm going to fiddle with his routines shortly, as they supposedly work with proportional font sizes. I considered the multiple side-by-side listboxes approach, but it seems messy. The author of these routines is giving them away. If they are really clever I'll post them here with his byline. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00016 Date: 03/30/97 From: BRUCE FEUCHUK Time: 06:30pm \/To: KERRY VINSON (Read 4 times) Subj: BBS Suicide Watch #3 KV> NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Yet Another One" KV> and was copied here by Kerry Vinson. Is there ANY reason to Cross Post this crap to UN-related Echo's??? This has NOTHING to do with VB (nor Win95...), etc.etc.etc.etc... b --- * Origin: Live from the West End of Vancouver, B.C. - Canada (1:153/7041.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: E3^00017 Date: 03/31/97 From: JIM BROADBENT Time: 08:18am \/To: PHILLIP NORMAND (Read 4 times) Subj: encryption Hi Phillip; PN> Hi! Jim! Thank for your reply. I wanted the program to make it PN> difficulte to open the password file with other PN> windows application. I'm that you know some I'm not sure I understand.... Are you trying to make it dificult for someone to independantly view the contents of your password data file?? If so I don't really know how that can be done directly once the person knows the name of the file... or do you want this filename to be constantly changing. If the file was an .exe file you could require a command line requirement to prevent it from being run. I used to do that with a large QB4.5 application I had which linked 4 ".exe" programs together. Only one would run unless you knew the commandline parameters for the other 3. But with a data file you don't have that option. Making it a hidden file will stop the casual browser and storing the file in a subdirectory other than the one where your main program modules lie would make it even more difficult to find (a common one such as c:\windows...*ell a lot of junk ends up there :-) As far as tampering goes...anyone can wreck a file to make it unuseable but as far as sorting out the actual password goes that routine I posted to you is not all that easy to solve because of the unprintable characters involved. Regards Jim --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: RASCAL Calgary, Alberta (403)686-2550 USR V.Everything (1:134/122)