[Lowfer] TMO/EIS

[John Davis]

>Not a lower issue, but - Re: VB-6.  I assume this means VisualBasic and
>I have a question.  Can I run regular Basic programs from VB, and use it
>as a GUI?  I have VB here, but the Microsoft manual doesn't even address
>this sort of thing.  Anybody know if (and then how) it can be done?

The "if" is sometimes yes, but the "how" is sometimes with great difficulty.

Visual Basic is an event-driven programming environment, meaning that you
put controls on a form in order to receive user input and display output,
and either a change in the input, or the user clicking a button control, or
an event generated in some other part of the program, signals the VB program
that something should happen.  You, the programmer, code how each event
should be handled.

You CAN adapt BASIC code to work in VB, but IMHO it's generally more
practical to  install Qbasic.exe in most versions of WIndows up to ME (I'm
not sure if it'll work from that version onward).  Even then, you may have
issues with port access if you're using an MS-DOS Prompt box instead of
restarting to real-mode DOS.

73,
John Davis