[Lowfer] Basic vs VB

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:17:20 -0600

Hello All: Although VB is an event driven language, you do not have to use
events. As a professional VB programmer I am called on many times to write
applications without visual interfaces. What I do is blow away any forms
created by the IDE and start the project with a Sub Main()module, this way
VB acts just like Quickbasic, except it has all the latest bells and
whistles.
	Someone suggested re-writing the LW-Max software in Perl, I have
read the source code(thanks Mike) and there is definite room for
improvement. Haven't looked into perl but was thinking of Delphi-Pascal.
	The question of array: In VB the size of any array is limited by the
amount of memory available to the operating system, which in all but  a few
cases is well beyond 64 kb. There are a few websites that have information
on converting Qbasic and QuickBasic to Visual Basic, See Below

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/t35137.html

		73 de Ve4Xc

-----Original Message-----
From: John Davis [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: November 11, 2002 6:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Basic vs VB

Ed writes:

> 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.

Might want to look at www.powerbasic.com/products/ and see if some of their
products might be the solution.

There are versions that compile BASIC code for the 32-bit Windows console
mode, others that compile for the Windows GUI, and a fairly advanced version
for plain DOS.

John

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