newbie VB question

ivan_alias · 9th April 2002, 08:27

Hi all

I'm going to write my own gui for some apps (mainly azid and lame). I know there are plenty of guis out there but this is so I can learn some simple programming not to compete in gui wars or anything

I've been toying with VB for some years but never really learnt much past the basics. Does anyone have any advice / good links for tutorials or some really simple source for calling the exes in a gui I could learn from?

Thanks a lot

Ivan_Alias

LigH · 10th April 2002, 09:36

Not really about your original question - but you might consider using the BeSweet DLL instead of calling Azid and Lame EXE...

BlackSun · 10th April 2002, 15:19

LigH is right, anyway maybe launching some .exe will help you to learn.

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb contain a lot of source code, it will make you happy

Also you can download (GPL) MorphiX source code, it show how to use the Lame DLL, it's in the download section (source code) @ Doom9.net

Enjoy !

ivan_alias · 10th April 2002, 18:01

Thanks guys

I got a hold of a copy of the source for vblamer which is a real simple gui to get me going.

Thanks for the links too.

The last time I did any programming was in mallard basic on the Amstrad CPW word processor thingy about 10 years ago!

BlackSun · 11th April 2002, 11:08

I have begun on an Amstrad CPC 464 with Basic too

64kb of memory !

Swede · 11th April 2002, 11:18

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64kb of memory !

You where lucky

My first computer (a swedish thing called ABC-80) had 16kb, a 1 MHz 8-bit Z-80 and a tape recorder. But of course that was back in '78.

vinouz · 11th April 2002, 12:36

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My first computer (a swedish thing called ABC-80) had 16kb, a 1 MHz 8-bit Z-80 and a tape recorder

was it some sort of TRS-80 clone ?

for myself it was a french computer we had in primary schools called MO5 from thomson.
Then I got an Atari ST and forgot about that thing (my surprise was back then, at age nine, when I discovered I could have 8 different colors on the same consecutive 8 pixels if I wanted. Gosh).
still remember my first ASM68K code... (cleaning the screen...) i was twelve, read about this wonderful game that is "Xenon 2". In the text was written 'bitmap bros did this prowess in 800kb pure ASM. So I said 'I'm gonna learn Assembler !'

Ok, my humble participation to that 'ooh guy when I was young' nostalgic troll ;oP

Vincent

Nic · 11th April 2002, 12:47

God I loved Xenon 2...The music ruled as well...very catchy

-Nic

Swede · 11th April 2002, 13:12

Quote:

Ok, my humble participation to that 'ooh guy when I was young' nostalgic troll ;oP

Oohh.. Don't get me started.

I've been around for far too many years.. I've actually got a Microsoft Cobol-80 manual in my bookshelf with their then rented-office-suite-address on the back... (Although I've never written anything good in Cobol, but who has?)

The ABC-80 was not a TRS-80 clone, even though the (fantastic?) hardware spec where about the same, it was entirely developed in sweden.

ivan_alias · 11th April 2002, 17:21

My 1st it of code was when I was about 7 or 8.

At school we used to go over to the BBC BASIC machines and use the good old trick:

10 PRINT "blah blah is an idiot! ";
20 GOTO 10
Run

Hours of fun!

vinouz · 11th April 2002, 20:07

Quote:

My 1st it of code was when I was about 7 or 8.

and when was your last ?

ivan_alias · 11th April 2002, 20:10

Well until this week about 8 years ago!

LigH · 12th April 2002, 07:19

Does anyone know a Commodore-16?!

Oh, how much fun I had with that one... And the eastern german KC87, shipped along with a little hammer (for the keyboard)

/ Or the KC85-3 with line-by-line "smooth scroll" -- Our school was one of the first in eastern germany who got the BICs: CGA-like (or even -compatible?) graphics, 128 KB RAM, SCP (the eastern version of CP/M), ROM-BASIC, and the best: a diskette drive! (But where could one buy diskettes in GDR?)

Fortunately, these times are so long ago...

ivan_alias · 12th April 2002, 08:16

I had a commodore plus 4 which was very sililar to the commodore 16 and inferior to the lovely ommodore 64 which all my friends seemed to have!

vinouz · 14th April 2002, 00:46

I still remember a wonderful demo on C64 with communist signs moving on hardtek music

.
Roots it was !

LigH · 14th April 2002, 01:38

Or the C64 version of the Second Reality by Smash Design

- runs fine in CCS64 2.0

...

- Does anyone remember the original topic title?!?

vinouz · 14th April 2002, 04:42

Remember meeting the coder at wired'98. Although I loved the old demos mostly because at that time competition wasn't that pushed, I was flabbergasted by the work.
But then I also have to mention "Paper" from Statix/ACME and more recently the .product (http://theproduct.de).
So well, yeah, starting from "newbie"+"VB"+"question", I thing we quite made some advance in terms of respectability of topic ;-p
just a joke. Now stop chatting and back to work guyz ! And quick !

HongKongFu · 21st April 2002, 17:25

@ivan_alias

maybe my code is interesting for you

cu fu

http://home.tiscalinet.de/pva2divx

9th April 2002, 08:27	#1 \| Link
ivan_alias H.264 is the Future Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: UK Posts: 211	newbie VB question Hi all I'm going to write my own gui for some apps (mainly azid and lame). I know there are plenty of guis out there but this is so I can learn some simple programming not to compete in gui wars or anything I've been toying with VB for some years but never really learnt much past the basics. Does anyone have any advice / good links for tutorials or some really simple source for calling the exes in a gui I could learn from? Thanks a lot Ivan_Alias

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BlackSun CoreCodec Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Toulouse Posts: 726	LigH is right, anyway maybe launching some .exe will help you to learn. http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb contain a lot of source code, it will make you happy Also you can download (GPL) MorphiX source code, it show how to use the Lame DLL, it's in the download section (source code) @ Doom9.net Enjoy ! __________________ BlackSun The Concentric Circles of Audio and Video

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BlackSun CoreCodec Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Toulouse Posts: 726	I have begun on an Amstrad CPC 464 with Basic too 64kb of memory ! __________________ BlackSun The Concentric Circles of Audio and Video

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vinouz Grüt Power Maintainer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: france Posts: 111	I still remember a wonderful demo on C64 with communist signs moving on hardtek music . Roots it was ! __________________ A psychotic thinks that 2 + 2 = 5. A neurotic knows that 2 + 2 = 4... but it worries him!

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vinouz Grüt Power Maintainer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: france Posts: 111	Remember meeting the coder at wired'98. Although I loved the old demos mostly because at that time competition wasn't that pushed, I was flabbergasted by the work. But then I also have to mention "Paper" from Statix/ACME and more recently the .product (http://theproduct.de). So well, yeah, starting from "newbie"+"VB"+"question", I thing we quite made some advance in terms of respectability of topic ;-p just a joke. Now stop chatting and back to work guyz ! And quick ! __________________ A psychotic thinks that 2 + 2 = 5. A neurotic knows that 2 + 2 = 4... but it worries him!

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LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, Gardelegen Posts: 1,464	Not really about your original question - but you might consider using the BeSweet DLL instead of calling Azid and Lame EXE...

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ivan_alias H.264 is the Future Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: UK Posts: 211	Thanks guys I got a hold of a copy of the source for vblamer which is a real simple gui to get me going. Thanks for the links too. The last time I did any programming was in mallard basic on the Amstrad CPW word processor thingy about 10 years ago!

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Nic Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: England Posts: 3,260	God I loved Xenon 2...The music ruled as well...very catchy -Nic

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ivan_alias H.264 is the Future Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: UK Posts: 211	My 1st it of code was when I was about 7 or 8. At school we used to go over to the BBC BASIC machines and use the good old trick: 10 PRINT "blah blah is an idiot! "; 20 GOTO 10 Run Hours of fun!

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ivan_alias H.264 is the Future Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: UK Posts: 211	Well until this week about 8 years ago!

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LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, Gardelegen Posts: 1,464	Does anyone know a Commodore-16?! Oh, how much fun I had with that one... And the eastern german KC87, shipped along with a little hammer (for the keyboard) / Or the KC85-3 with line-by-line "smooth scroll" -- Our school was one of the first in eastern germany who got the BICs: CGA-like (or even -compatible?) graphics, 128 KB RAM, SCP (the eastern version of CP/M), ROM-BASIC, and the best: a diskette drive! (But where could one buy diskettes in GDR?) Fortunately, these times are so long ago...

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ivan_alias H.264 is the Future Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: UK Posts: 211	I had a commodore plus 4 which was very sililar to the commodore 16 and inferior to the lovely ommodore 64 which all my friends seemed to have!

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LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, Gardelegen Posts: 1,464	Or the C64 version of the Second Reality by Smash Design - runs fine in CCS64 2.0 ... - Does anyone remember the original topic title?!?

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HongKongFu Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 33	@ivan_alias maybe my code is interesting for you cu fu http://home.tiscalinet.de/pva2divx

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