[RESOLVED] creative minds - ideas encouraged for my project

I am creating a project in VB 6.

I will be simulating the display of a petrol pump via seven segment display & buttons to simulate taking the petrol pump in and out.


I am unsure if anyone has tried creating a 7 segment display and perhaps if so, any tips for how to structure the code etc? Been looking at sites and most of them are actual software for creating it and costs money...

Any other cool ideas to make it more life like, or better advances on my ideas are welcome. I'll the specification to anyone who wants it.

Any help/ideas would greatly appreciated.:thumb: :wave:

Here's a grand open source example. Hope it helps you along your way.

here is some basic code to create a display using labels,
put a label on a form about 500 wide by 135 high, somewhere near the left side, give it some colour
either put this into form load or a command button

vb Code:

Dim i as long, w as long, h as long
For i = 1 To Label1.UBound
    Unload Label1(i)
Next
w = Label1(0).Width
h = Label1(0).Height
For i = 1 To 69
    Load Label1(i)
    With Label1(i)
        Select Case i Mod 7
            Case 0: .Move (Label1(0).Width + 500) * (i \ 7) + Label1(0).Left, Label1(0).Top
            Case 1: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left + w, Label1(0).Top + h, h, w
            Case 2: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left + w, Label1(0).Top + 2 * h + w, h, w
            Case 3: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left, Label1(0).Top + 2 * h + 2 * w
            Case 4: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left - h, Label1(0).Top + 2 * h + w, h, w
            Case 5: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left - h, Label1(0).Top + h, h, w
            Case 6: .Move Label1((i \ 7) * 7).Left, Label1(0).Top + h + w: .Visible = True
        End Select
        .Visible = Not .Visible
    End With
Next
Label1(0).Visible = True
sw = Me.Width - Me.ScaleWidth
sh = Me.Height - Me.ScaleHeight
Me.Width = (Label1(0).Width + 500) * (i \ 7) + (2 * Label1(0).Left) - s - h * 2

to put a value in the display add a text box, where you can type the number of digits up to the number in the display

vb Code:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
      Dim i As Long, j As Long, mystr As String, x as long
      If KeyAscii = 13 Then
      KeyAscii = 0
      For i = 0 To Label1.UBound
          Label1(i).Visible = False
      Next
      For i = 1 To Len(Text1)
          Select Case Mid(Text1, i, 1)
              Case 1: mystr = "12"
              Case 2: mystr = "01643"
              Case 3: mystr = "01236"
              Case 4: mystr = "5612"
              Case 5: mystr = "05623"
              Case 6: mystr = "54326"
              Case 7: mystr = "012"
              Case 8: mystr = "0123456"
              Case 9: mystr = "01256"
              Case 0: mystr = "012345"
          End Select
           For j = 1 To Len(mystr)
            x = Mid(mystr, j, 1) + (((i - 1) Mod 7) + ((i - 1) \ 7) * 7) * 7
              Label1(x).Visible = True
          Next
      Next
      End If
      End Sub

this example creates a 10 digit display, to change the number of digits just change value in for loop from 69, seven digits would be 48
there is no error checking or validation of the text typed in the textbox, and i haven't got round to working from the right hand end or decimal places yet

hey thanks for that i'm going to check it out in depth later but looks to be good! cheers.

westconn1,
that code will be VERY helpful. =] many thanks.