--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00013 Date: 10/12/97 From: EILEEN LOUISE Time: 12:10pm \/To: JUSTIN CHAN (Read 4 times) Subj: fractals Hi Justin, Quoting Justin Chan to All on Thursday October 09 1997 JC> I just ondering if anyone can help me out there.. I'm trying to do JC> a fractal under visual basic 4.0 . The problems lies in the colours I JC> want to use. QBcolor function supports 16 colours while RGB supports JC> ALOT!!... I want to use RGB function however due to the compiler, JC> fractals that use the RGB function run extremely slow.. does anyone JC> out there know of a good method of using colours and ploting pixels in JC> a form in VB 32 bit. You could speed things up a bit by picking the selection of colors you want and enumerating them once, then refer to them in code directly. --- eileen@technologist.com * Origin: We Gladly Feast On Those Who Would Subdue Us (1:326/431) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00014 Date: 10/12/97 From: EILEEN LOUISE Time: 12:20pm \/To: BUCKY CARR (Read 4 times) Subj: Hi Bucky, Quoting Bucky Carr to Eileen Louise on Thursday October 09 1997 BC> Now you can tell me the bad news - RDO is only available with BC> Enterprise editions, right? it strikes me that RDO is available in pro, but that T-SQl debugger and the userconnection designer are only available in enterprise. but i could be wrong. i don't use tsql or userconnections though, just code by hand, in the end i find it faster anyway, and certainly more flexible. BC> Thanks for telling all of us this. I was thinking I was weird in BC> the BC> way I write stuff. When I write most of my ASM programs, I usually BC> do 'em in BASIC first, then convert them to ASM (if they can be coded BC> in BASIC to begin with). well that's a slightly different thing ... more like prototyping in a rad-dier environment, but that works too. :) EL>> it's 9:30 here at the moment. i've been up writing code since EL>> 4:30 this morning. non-stop except for one hand occasionally EL>> eating pizza. hahaha. funny enough this was all pure magic. EL>> usually i get tired after 12 hours. BC> You are likely younger than I. There was a time I could blast away BC> every day for 12 hours. Eyesight is failing me after 10 hours, for BC> one thing. EL>> well it is at this point. gone are the days of having to make EL>> constants orread in constant.txt files. 5 has everything but the EL>> kitchen sink enumerated. BC> VB5 is sitting there awaiting the day I'll take on the conversion from BC> VB4. BC> SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 28/777 102/2 105/72 106/2000 112/2715 114/262 BC> 116/158 BC> SEEN-BY: 124/1 130/1 133/2 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 157/2 110 167/166 BC> SEEN-BY: 170/400 203/992 213/213 218/907 231/1 244/1500 260/362 BC> 267/200 BC> SEEN-BY: 270/101 271/140 275/1 280/1 169 282/1 1024 300/114 603 301/1 BC> SEEN-BY: 310/666 323/107 1212 324/278 326/431 341/100 343/600 346/250 BC> 356/18 BC> SEEN-BY: 377/97 382/92 384/14 387/5 388/1 392/15 396/1 45 500/3 606/1 BC> 730/2 BC> SEEN-BY: 733/1 823/1 2401/0 2442/0 2501/209 2608/2 2808/100 3612/300 BC> 3615/50 BC> SEEN-BY: 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 3667/1 3828/2 5100/8 BC> @PATH: 15/7 104/115 627 270/101 396/1 323/107 --- eileen@technologist.com * Origin: We Gladly Feast On Those Who Would Subdue Us (1:326/431) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00015 Date: 10/12/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 11:19am \/To: KURT TISCHER (Read 4 times) Subj: "Out of Memory" KT> I usually leave most forms unloaded until needed and haven't KT> seen any kind of a major slow down in performance. The only time I KT> load a form and keep it hidden is if it takes more time to load due to KT> certain vbx/ocx controls, Okay, thanks - I'll try that and see what I see. KT> and for really large applications I try to KT> chop it down to several smaller executables that are shelled when KT> needed, passing any needed data via command line arguments or read KT> from a file. Haven't tried that yet. May tinker with it down the line. KT> Which brings me to a question. In C, one can use pointers to KT> variables in order to change data and so on. Is it possible to do KT> this in VB, especially in the case of a shelled applet? For example, KT> if one app creates a variable MyVal% is it possible to make MyVal% KT> visible to a shelled app in order to change MyVal% if necessary? If KT> so, how? Eileen can tackle this one better than I. Hope it can be done as it would vastly ease some of the dinkering. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00016 Date: 10/12/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 11:26am \/To: JEFF HUNTER (Read 4 times) Subj: Error handling JH> I'm re-thinking that now, and am in the process of writing a JH> small program that logs all errors to a database, and an external JH> program that lists recent errors in the database by frequency. That JH> way, every error that a user hits is fully logged, and I can have them JH> print out a report of errors that'll help me track down bugs. Any JH> specific functions that need additional error handling can override JH> the default "error log" handler. I think this is a MARVELOUS idea and applaud you for sharing it here. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00017 Date: 10/12/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 11:28am \/To: JEFF HUNTER (Read 4 times) Subj: Access Data Structures JH> Anyone know of a program that will take an existing Access database JH> and create a .BAS program that will re-create the structure of the JH> database? I'm looking for a way to create a database if the user JH> doesn't have the original data file, or if the original database gets JH> corrupted they can re-create the structure. Another great idea for a program. Here is the rub that I can see. Back in MSDOS PDS 7.1 days, the ISAM structure was declared to be "proprietary". Without a declaration of how an Access database is constructed I can't imagine how we'd write such a utility. If you know the structure that Access uses to create the DB, writing the util you envision would be a relative snap, since I have all the code composed to do so. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00018 Date: 10/12/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 11:36am \/To: MIKE SCIROCCO (Read 4 times) Subj: Web site addresses, please MS> www.metacrawler.com/index_power.html Thank you very much! --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEH00019 Date: 10/12/97 From: TYLER AVISS Time: 01:24pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: 32-bit modem Anybody know any API calls to access the modem in win95 for... a) Getting Data recieved b) Sending Data c) Getting ERRORS d) Getting Port addresses, devices, etc? OR any other methods for doing this... I don't have a modem OCX, so if anybody knows where I can get one, I would be very happy..... --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Digital Encounters * Kamloops BC Canada 250/374-6168 (1:353/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEI00000 Date: 10/12/97 From: DARREN O'BRIEN Time: 09:33pm \/To: JEFF HUNTER (Read 4 times) Subj: MSComm under Win95 -> I'm writing a program that does modem communications using VB5's MSComm -> control under Win95. MSComm requires that you set the modem's comm -> port, parity, start bits, stop bits, init string, etc. What I want to -> do is to take the settings that you've already installed for your modem -> in the Win95 setup and use those settings instead of making the user -> re-enter everything. Anyone know how to "properly" access these -> settings? Is there an API call I can use? Only thing i know is that GetSettings retrieves values from the registry for things --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0GI * Origin: WELCOM BBS (3:771/370) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEI00001 Date: 10/13/97 From: STEVEN LAGER Time: 04:59pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Part 1 Some one was asking about a util/code to convert MDB to BAS. I thought that what I had found was source code to do this but in fact it is a util (Freeware) to accomplish this. It can be found at the following Internet te: Free-B http://www.voicenet.com/~pcuff/freeb/vb5.htm MDB2BAS 1.00.011 [3,595K] Finaly it's here!!! Stop writing miles and miles of code to create an Access database with all the tables and indexes!!! Now all you have to do is to select the database, name the module and the sub that will be created and click the generate button. This program will create for you all the code that is needed to create at runtime the database with tables and indexes! If you do not have Inet access but have Fido netmail access and would like to freq the file let me know and I will grab it from the net and make it available for request. Steven Lager On-Site consulting BBS 1:253/234 100:1019/1 onsite@accel.net --- Msged 4.10 * Origin: On-Site Consulting Support BBS - Shotgun Alpha Site (1:253/234) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EEI00002 Date: 10/13/97 From: STEVEN LAGER Time: 05:04pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Part 2. For those that would be interested I have the followinf code snippets available for posting: Get Free Space on drive Drive Type Get Volume Name Get volume Serial Number Is Leap Year Remove Back Slash Add Back Slash Get Path Get Filename Get Extension file Exists make month shell copy shellmove shellrename shell to recyle shell delete and more If you would like I can post any/all of the above and other's that I have found in my travels. Steven Lager On-Site Consulting 1:253/234 100:1019/1 onsite@accel.net --- Msged 4.10 * Origin: On-Site Consulting Support BBS - Shotgun Alpha Site (1:253/234)