Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 but
can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? Am I missing something
really obvious?
I'm trying to create a song-lyrics editing tool, pretty simple - a couple of
textboxes and a button or 2 to save/load from text files, but I want
something along the lines of a drivelistbox/dirlistbox/filelistbox combo
down the side to easily open saved files.
Also - how the hell would I do this in .net?
sub command1_click
form2.visible = true
end sub
??? seems im-bloodey-possible...
Any help much appreciated
Dec 30 '05
15  1235 
"Alex McMillan" <BR****@orcon.n et.nz> wrote in message
news:43******@n ews.orcon.net.n z... THANKYOU thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!!!
I've been hunting for something like that for a couple of days now - all I
get is stuff I gotta buy, and living in New Zealand make's it nearly
impossible to buy a book from (e.g.) amazon.com - 'You must be a U.S.
resident to apply for an account' grrr
Tried Gordon and Gotch? Mind you, I remember it taking a year for them to
special order a book for me.
But there's https://connect.microsoft.com/downlo...aspx?SiteID=40
if you've registered VB.
Microsoft® Visual BasicT 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
This fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming
project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll
learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express
to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first
ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples
at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning
resources.
"Alex McMillan" <BR****@orcon.n et.nz> wrote in message
news:43******@n ews.orcon.net.n z... Yeah - but, well... I'm a VB6 guru and have nobody to help me understand
.net, so how the hell a tree control works I dont know...
VB6 had a tree control.
Maybe it's just a lost cause - thanks for your help anyway. I need to
find somebody who can walk me through a simple project and teach me how to
switch between forms. https://connect.microsoft.com/downlo...aspx?SiteID=40
Microsoft® Visual BasicT 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
This fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming
project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll
learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express
to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first
ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples
at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning
resources.
>> Also - how the hell would I do this in .net?
sub command1_click
form2.visible = true
end sub
??? seems im-bloodey-possible...
The global, auto-instancing, invisible variables, often causing much
trouble
because people sometimes don't know what classes and objects are, and that
you couldn't get rid of (not the people but the variables...) in VB6 are
now gone - they are back in VB 2005. Do it like with all the other
thousands
of classes: Declare a variable and assign a new object.
Armin
Okay - here's where I become a newbie again...
Could you post a little bit of code so I can try and follow it? At the
moment I'm just writing a kinda 'notepad' lookalike - Ive added menu's and
want to open 'frmAbout' when the user clicks on Help-->About. I can't
understand how. In VB6 I would have just done it as above..
frmAbout.visibl e = True...
"Alex McMillan" <BR****@orcon.n et.nz> schrieb
Okay - here's where I become a newbie again...
Could you post a little bit of code so I can try and follow it? At
the moment I'm just writing a kinda 'notepad' lookalike - Ive added
menu's and want to open 'frmAbout' when the user clicks on
Help-->About. I can't understand how. In VB6 I would have just
done it as above..
frmAbout.visibl e = True...
In VB6 I would have done it the same way I do it now:
dim f as new frmAbout
f.showdialog 'in VB6: f.show vbmodal
In general, if you want to access an object, you need a reference. If you
don't have it, you need to pass it. Using global variables was already bad
practice in VB6 because it works against the recommendation of
encapsulation. Passing variables is clearer because could simply pick some
classes and put them in a library without the need of unscrambling the
relations of the classes to modules (having relations to other classes
(having relations to modules (having relations to other classes....))).
see also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ithObjects.asp
Armin
showdialog!! there we go... now I understand...
Thanks a lot Armin - much appreciated.
Too bad I got impatient and uninstalled .net - replaced with VB6...
Didnt try, but would it be possible to have them both installed without any
'bad things' happening?
Am installing .net again now - just couldnt handle sitting at my computer
unable to code :-)
Thanks again,
Alex
"Armin Zingler" <az*******@free net.de> wrote in message
news:OD******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... "Alex McMillan" <BR****@orcon.n et.nz> schrieb
Okay - here's where I become a newbie again...
Could you post a little bit of code so I can try and follow it? At
the moment I'm just writing a kinda 'notepad' lookalike - Ive added
menu's and want to open 'frmAbout' when the user clicks on
Help-->About. I can't understand how. In VB6 I would have just
done it as above..
frmAbout.visibl e = True...
In VB6 I would have done it the same way I do it now:
dim f as new frmAbout
f.showdialog 'in VB6: f.show vbmodal
In general, if you want to access an object, you need a reference. If you
don't have it, you need to pass it. Using global variables was already bad
practice in VB6 because it works against the recommendation of
encapsulation. Passing variables is clearer because could simply pick some
classes and put them in a library without the need of unscrambling the
relations of the classes to modules (having relations to other classes
(having relations to modules (having relations to other classes....))).
see also:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ithObjects.asp
Armin
> Didnt try, but would it be possible to have them both installed without any 'bad things' happening?
You can forever be the first after all those years that nothing happened
:-)
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