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From: Mike Williams on 15 Jan 2009 04:18 "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> wrote in message news:%233F0iTudJHA.1916(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Migration to linux with a .net app, isn't that difficult either. But .net is probably not where he wants to go today, especially vb.net or whatever they are currently calling it. For many people one of the biggest advantages of moving to Linux is that it is also a move away from Micro$oft. So why would such people want to use a Micro$oft product on it? I certainly wouldn't. Micro$oft are devious and unscrupulous and have the collective morals of a bunch of corporate gangsters. Mike
From: Tom Shelton on 15 Jan 2009 04:18 On 2009-01-15, expvb <nobody(a)cox.net> wrote: > "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> wrote in message > news:%23naO4FtdJHA.3520(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> but, it seems to me, your just as well off using VB.NET as this. > > Jabaco probably works for Windows 9x, while VB.Net 2008 doesn't. > I don't know about that, the home page recomends XP or better for the OS and requires JRE 1.4.2 or higher. This will work on Win98 and WinMe... So, maybe. -- Tom Shelton
From: Ulrich Korndoerfer on 15 Jan 2009 07:55 Hi Matthew :-)) Schmidt schrieb: > ... >>>>> Yep, one can use either McKinneys Typelib - or some >>>>> newer pendants to it, which are available after a short Google- >>>>> session. >>>> And the Google search phrase would be ? > > Sorry for the late response... > I've used for some time: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32apilib/ > (last changes in July 2005) > > IIRC the author [SolarAngel] was also active in these groups. Thanks for the link. What are your experiences, if I may ask? -- Ulrich Korndoerfer VB tips, helpers, solutions -> http://www.proSource.de/Downloads/
From: Schmidt on 15 Jan 2009 08:58 "Ulrich Korndoerfer" <ulrich_wants_nospam(a)prosource.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23%23VxMCxdJHA.3792(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi Matthew :-)) Oh please, not again... > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32apilib/ > Thanks for the link. What are your experiences, if I may ask? It contains pairs of most of the WinAPI-functions - with the W-Version mostly the Default (without the W-suffix in the exported Name). And for the sets of functions which I were using - everything worked well. But after a while I discovered, that I only used 10-15 functions from it in my toolset and therefore decided, to use these directly per VB-Declares in a *.bas - mostly because of the larger up-popping intellisense-list which was somewhat irritating over time for me - but that's probably only a "habit- thingy". The only TypeLib which has mostly a "fixed place" in my Project-settings is Eduardo Morcillos Olelib.tlb. A new, well-maintained "community-Typelib-Project", should probably "integrate" Edanmos OleLib first, because this one was known as very well maintained with probably no bugs anymore (or at lest very few ones) - and a potential merge with the "normal WinAPI" should then try to avoid duplications of Types and functions of course (which also was the case with the typelib from the link above - there was some "overlapping" with OleLib.tlb and another reason why I excluded it after a while from my projects). Olaf
From: Ulrich Korndoerfer on 15 Jan 2009 11:17
Hi Olaf, Schmidt schrieb: > ... >>> It works well and fast (as IDE) on all current Win-Platforms >>> and the Binaries (and probably the VB-Classic-IDE too) >>> seem to run for at least another 5 years even on windows7. >>> >>>> But, if you did wait - this is a good time :) WPF is a >>>> really nice technology. >>> Will post an announcement regarding a WPF-pendant >>> for VB6 soon here in the group. >>> >> I'm anxious to hear about this. > The initial-release was planned for this time (early january), but > I decided, to rewrite everything I had already finished (with > plain Win32-GDI-calls) with a new cairo-based rendering- > backend, which currently works out as a really good decision. > ... Did you write a VB binding wrapper for Cairo? And if yes, would this be available separately? -- Ulrich Korndoerfer VB tips, helpers, solutions -> http://www.proSource.de/Downloads/ |