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Well really the only question is does it work so that I can move on with the rest of the program. I understand that your ideas are more efficient, but at the moment i fear they are way to complex for me. Perhaps I will rewrite the program, using better, more efficient and useful methods, most probalby i will. However right now I would simply like a program that works. I can go from there.
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john bunsenburner wrote ...
Well really the only question is does it work so that I can move on with the rest of the program. I understand that your ideas are more efficient, but at the moment i fear they are way to complex for me. Perhaps I will rewrite the program, using better, more efficient and useful methods, most probalby i will. However right now I would simply like a program that works. I can go from there.
The only way to really learn a language is to have a purpose in using it. This is what you are doing, which is good - unless there is an endgame, the subject is simply too large - where do you start?
I would encourage you to think about what you want to do, avoid feature-creep, think of a reasonable approach, and get some examples off the net (e.g. ). An awful lot of example code out there is, unfortunately, complete rubbish, but every time you see something you don't understand. Look it up - try to understand the syntax, play with it. Once you start to get your head around the philosophy of the language, you will start to know what to expect, e.g. It is wholey reasonable that VB should provide a mechanism for initialising arrays at declaration (pretty much any language allows that), so dig around until either you find out how to do it, or a workround. The initial phase of learning can be tough & steep, but once you have the solid grounding, it's ever so much easier. Every subsequent language also becomes easier also... e.g. there are several variants of VB - the syntax of how you do certain statements will change, but the underlying rationale stays the same.
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Thanks for that, i will do my best, i hope that i will stay intrested enough to keep on track until I master this, its really great and i enjoy it alot. I will finish this project as good as i can with the knowlage i have, to get a crude and un efficent version, then I will improve apon it, until it is really good. Then I will present it to you guys!
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I built a timer very similar to this in about 50 lines of code that counts down until it reaches 0 at which time it sounds a number of different alarm tones. The only thing is that I wrote it in vb.net 2008 and most of the functions won't work in vb6.
You should get rid of vb6 I mean it came out like a decade ago its time to take the step up to vb.net which boasts many more features. Its not just the ".net" part it allows multi threading in about 10 lines of code which is AWESOME imagine being able to run multiple things at the same time or have something running in the background without locking the gui until its done! Soon I am moving to QT creator and setting vb.net aside its nice and easy but not a real world language as you can make some really sweat stuff in QT creator + its cross platform linux, windows, and mac.
BTW you don't have to pay for vb.net as long as you're not trying to make a profit, vb.net express edition has many of the same features (its missing advanced software publishing stuff) but unless you're trying to make professional grade software you won't have a problem. The best part about it is that its free!
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