My latest project was direct access to sensors on tablets and laptops through ISensorManager/ISensor. The demo is an Ambient Light Monitor, watching the input from that sensor:

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https://github.com/fafalone/AmbientLightMonitor

The repo also has binary builds because as the finished UI suggests I thought it might be useful, e.g. as a way to monitor whether someone turns the lights on while you're away.

For a successor, my hope was that I could, as documented, access GPS sensors through the same interface, but despite the fact my tablet definitely has GPS and other apps can access it, I'm getting an error indicating no GPS sensor was found. They might have entirely locked it up behind WinRT.


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Then just a minute ago I posted an updated 64bit compatible port of Ordo PDF Reader with the changes from the latest VB6 version.

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Finally a couple weeks ago I posted one I know you'll love, my long overdue Windows UI Ribbon Advanced Demo. Tons of new features, new controls, and bonus features implementing various RichEdit functionality and hijacking the MS Office RichEdit with Color Emoji support.

There's pics in the announcement post here on VBF, or you can go straight to the project repository. Still haven't changed my mind about not backporting it or the others beyond the Intro Demo to VB6.

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In possibly upcoming project news; I also might release an OCX wrapper of Wayne's WebView2 control for twinBASIC, aimed at VB6. oleexp.tlb has the WebView2 interfaces but there's a lot more to a functional control than that, so I thought it easier to just make the existing one accessible. It would be an open source alternative to Olaf's closed source RC6 implementation, and also make it accessible to VBA64.