Dink Software

I love VB lol. Trying to make a calculator program now, and research varibles etc. so I can work my way up to a web browser :p.

How 'hard' is it though? Can you spot some code examples?

Personally i look down on people that claim to be able to write a computer program in VB. I don't really know why, i've never seen VB but so many people seem to have a knowledge of it, kinda stops being a skill. I wish you luck with VB anyway! If you could show us some example code i'd very much appreciate it! I'd love to see it's syntax, i presume it's origins are in BASIC but probaly smothered in tons of Microsoft goo and then .NET slamed on to of it!

Edit: Don't stick to just VB, you may have seamless intergration with .NET but you'll probaly want to have a diverse range of languages, try Ruby( with rails).

This site: http://www.freevbcode.com/ has heaps of VB code examples/programs with source code which looks cool (including calculators). I wouldn't exactly say it is simple.

Dink wrote:This site: http://www.freevbcode.com/ has heaps of VB code examples/programs with source code which looks cool (including calculators). I wouldn't exactly say it is simple.

I never said it was simple...did i? I said it's 'over populated', seems to common...

You do a lot of it visually, which is easy, which is why Holiverh is now going to say it doesn't count as a "real" programming language , but, you obvisouly need to code the back-end parts such as where a button goes when it's clicked, etc. Here's the code for my back, forward, and go buttons on the browser:

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Public Class WebBrowser

    Private Sub PictureBox3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles GoButton.Click
        DisplayScreen.Navigate(URL.Text)
    End Sub

    Private Sub PictureBox1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BackButton.Click
        DisplayScreen.GoBack()
    End Sub

    Private Sub PictureBox2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        DisplayScreen.GoForward()
    End Sub

End Class


But it did most of that for me. I don't know how to change the PictureBox2, PictureBox 1 etc, I'll have to find that out later.

Unknown98 wrote:You do a lot of it visually, which is easy, which is why Holiverh is now going to say it doesn't count as a "real" programming language , but, you obvisouly need to code the back-end parts such as where a button goes when it's clicked, etc. Here's the code for my back, forward, and go buttons on the browser:

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Public Class WebBrowser

    Private Sub PictureBox3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles GoButton.Click
        DisplayScreen.Navigate(URL.Text)
    End Sub

    Private Sub PictureBox1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BackButton.Click
        DisplayScreen.GoBack()
    End Sub

    Private Sub PictureBox2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        DisplayScreen.GoForward()
    End Sub

End Class


But it did most of that for me. I don't know how to change the PictureBox2, PictureBox 1 etc, I'll have to find that out later.

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Button(frame,text="VB for babies! XD",background="light blue",justify=CENTER,padx=5,pady=5,command=self.doSomething()).grid(row=0,column=0)

Is that really so hard you need a program to do it for you? Python(Tk) btw, wouldn't want any confusion.

"PictureBoxX_click" seems like the name of the widget, and i think you change that in the 'properties' panel.

No, but it saves time and allows software to be deveoloped faster. Doh

I'll look into that later. :p.

Calculator coming along unexpectadly well lol. Especially with me only dedicating 1 hr a day to it. Only one bug found so far (Decimals not working unless they are less than 1).

haha, i love Vb