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From: Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: Frank - is all well with you?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:34:21 -0500
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In alt.fan.frank.mccoy arargh407NOSPAM@NOW.AT.arargh.com wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0500, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
>wrote:
>
><snip>
>>>Do you work in Visual Basic?
>>
>>Not really.
>>If somebody offered me a job with it, then I probably wouldn't have
>>any problems adding it to all the other program languages and 27
>>varieties of Basic I already know.
>It might not be quite that easy. :-) Syntactically, VB is not all
>that different that any other basic, however, VB is event driven which
>is unlike any other basic that I know of. I always found it to be a
>pain to block the user from clicking on buttons that weren't ready to
>be clicked on yet.
>
My "solution" to that, is to create a series of dummy calls for ALL
buttons and keys not used. Create it once as "boilerplate", and then
replace the dummy calls, as needed, with "real" routines, as the
program progresses.
>BTW, if you want to try a 32-bit basic that is not VB, check out the
>2nd URL in the sig.
><snip>
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