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Today, 04:51 AM

rudyking replied to a thread Emulate a Epson Network receipt printer. in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Thank you! I'll look into these to get any ideas!!!

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Today, 04:33 AM

gaouser replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

they even leaked damn MSPaint code in literal MFC(my reverse engineering was correct, it was made in MFC). BUT NOT VB?

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Today, 04:32 AM

gaouser replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

cant leave the tradition. vb6 hits diffrent

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Today, 04:11 AM

Schmidt replied to a thread How do you handle length operations in your business in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Yep, RC6 is using the speed-optimized MS-implementations (supporting Files with unlimited size). It all depends on the speed of your HD of course ...

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Today, 03:52 AM

jdelano replied to a thread Emulate a Epson Network receipt printer. in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

You can probably do this with a PDF printer, something like Black Ice, then configure the paper size to a receipt printer. ...

2 replies | 47 view(s)

Today, 03:35 AM

wqweto replied to a thread How do you handle length operations in your business in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Do your releases contain GB of files? We are basically using MD5 for our file hashes out of legacy reasons, not because it's faster than SHA-2 but...

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Today, 03:28 AM

rudyking started a thread Emulate a Epson Network receipt printer. in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on emulating an Epson network printer to accept orders from a local iPad, so that the data is sent to a...

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Today, 03:00 AM

Zvoni replied to a thread SQL Server's hierarchyid and creating rows from the bottom up in Database Development

This reminds of the scenario "how can a Foreign Key point to its own Primary Key in one and the same table?" e.g. Table ID - INT PrimaryKey...

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Today, 02:30 AM

Phill.W replied to a thread How do you handle length operations in your business in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

If you want to stay inside the "VB Box", then Active Exes are the way to do it. I don't recall them being that difficult to work with. You call a...

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Today, 12:29 AM

zx81sp replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

You need a (big) team to do a "VB7" fully (really fully) compatible with any VB6 project if you want to have a confident and trustable product. A...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 11:38 PM

fafalone replied to a thread VB6 and win 10, total power shutdown and restart problem. in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

You should use API methods that let you control this; like open/create the file with CreateFile using the FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH and...

1 replies | 64 view(s)

Yesterday, 11:20 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread How can I make a TextBox a mask for a background image? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Here I have the OCX, although I still need a few improvements: 1.- Olaf, when it obtains the Width and Height of the Text, calculates it as if...

17 replies | 431 view(s)

Yesterday, 11:02 PM

ricardoweb084 started a thread Help Optimize MySql Query in Database Development

I hope this is the right category to post this question. I use Visual Basic 6 and MySql. Some queries are slow and the database doesn't have more...

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Yesterday, 09:40 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread How can I make a TextBox a mask for a background image? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Ok Olaf, good, here the 4 diagonals: Private Sub Form_Load() Caption = "Click me" End Sub Private Sub Form_Click() Dim WPxl: WPxl =...

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Yesterday, 09:37 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Diagional Color Gradient in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Ok, here the 4 diagonals: Private Sub Form_Load() Caption = "Click me" End Sub Private Sub Form_Click() Dim WPxl: WPxl =...

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Yesterday, 08:24 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread How can I make a TextBox a mask for a background image? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Thanks another time Olaf, I go to see the link, the size of Text I find searching here, you write in another topic, and work fine, the only problem I...

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Yesterday, 07:39 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

That's a genius idea. Maybe we can generate a simple VB code parser with 500 kb VB code.

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 07:30 PM

cbbobd replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

My goal was to write the smallest C compiler which is able to compile itself. I will guess that statement alone is enough to confuse many. Takes...

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Yesterday, 07:28 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

JetBrains, kotlin, their company developed a lot of programming IDE, these founders are also Russian, but unfortunately they all ran away. For...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 07:17 PM

cbbobd started a thread VB6 and win 10, total power shutdown and restart problem. in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

So here is the thing. It is a CNC machine tool. Every cycle it writes a status file of what is going on. So one pulls the big red switch and then...

1 replies | 64 view(s)

Yesterday, 07:07 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

If someone tells you that a programmer wrote a soft base station in only 10 months, you must think it is impossible, because this kind of big project...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 06:53 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Tiny C compiler, the smallest C language compiler on GNU/Linux systems. Tiny C compiler is not only a C language compiler in the conventional sense,...

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Yesterday, 06:49 PM

Schmidt replied to a thread How can I make a TextBox a mask for a background image? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

The method: CC.GetTextExtents is, what you're looking for... (which will give you the FontHeight as well, when you provide it with the Optional...

17 replies | 431 view(s)

Yesterday, 06:44 PM

cbbobd replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

So many details. Just writing very simple Fortran, C or other compiler is no easy task.

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Yesterday, 06:41 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Roslyn was born with an open mind: to share the inner workings of the C # language for the world to use programmatically. That in itself was a bold...

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Yesterday, 06:38 PM

xiaoyao replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Only part of the compiler and IDE functions are open source. Only in this way can twinbasic have more users and longer life. What if one day you...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 05:56 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread How can I make a TextBox a mask for a background image? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Hello Olaf again, I wanted to ask you, if you have time and desire, I've been looking at the documentation and so on, and I can't find 2 questions: ...

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Yesterday, 03:22 PM

Shaggy Hiker replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I think this is right. VB6 is archaic in one way that people don't talk about much: It cost money. These days, there isn't much reason to buy a...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)

Yesterday, 03:13 PM

OptionBase1 replied to a thread VS 2013 VB2013 GUI Form build in Visual Basic .NET

It's a Saturday. Here's hundreds of lines of code, most of which is almost certainly not relevant to the issue at hand, and two screenshots that...

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Yesterday, 03:11 PM

Shaggy Hiker replied to a thread Why developing a VB6 compiler is a difficult thing to do? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I've long suspected that this is the case, as surprising it might be to some people. After all, WHY would a software company with abundant storage...

37 replies | 1586 view(s)