[Lowfer] TMO/EIS

Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:36:07 -0500

Also, don't forget Windows Scripting Host, an environment not unlike Basic
that replaced QBasic on the newer Microsoft OSes.

From Visual Basic you *CAN* make some system calls to run a program but it
is not for the faint of heart.

Mike

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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] TMO/EIS
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> >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
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