[Lowfer] Basic vs VB

[Ed Phillips]

Peter Barick wrote:
> >>> longwave@mindspring.com 11/06/02 07:47PM >>>
> >>>I have a question.  Can I run regular Basic programs from VB,
> >>> and use it as a GUI?  I have VB here ...
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> >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, ...
> >John Davis
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> Ed, John,
> 
> I'm late on this thread, having been out of touch much of the week. But
> I agree w/ John's assessment on VB vs. Basic. Yes, most anything can be
> done to convert the code, however, here I foresee a ton of work.
> 
> One approach may to keep the Basic pgms. on an older pc.
> 
> I've coded in both venues, though had not converted such as Ed wants.
> My guess here is that the I/O that for the Basic app. can be thought of
> as an "event[s]" [in VB terms], triggered by a user box-button, the
> former screen text output now going to a VB text box object, which would
> likely have a scroll bar for text "paging."
> 
> I'm not in favor of it, Ed.

	Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm convinced now that it is a bad idea (at
least for me).  The problem with the DOS versions is the limited array
size, unless anyone knows a way around that.

Ed
> 
> Peter