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Walter
Found the Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Microsoft Press $59.99)
for $28.99 at the local Costco. They had the Wrox book as well I think (it
was cheaper, but I don't remember the exact price). I was too cheap to buy
both as I already have the Visual Basic 6.0 Black Book which seems to make
more sense to me as a programmer. It's more of a 'how do I do this task'
type book. If you want to perform a specific task, they have the code to do
it. I'm hoping that between the two, I'll have all the information I need
to get started.
I'm a VB baby as I've programmed for almost 40 years in probably 10 or more
different languages, but I have never used VB. Will install Visual Studio
Professional this weekend and get to work. For some reason, I have a mental
block in getting started with VB, and always retreat to something I know
like Clipper or using Metastock.
Regards,
Guy Tann
Fax (630) 604-1589
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Walter Lake
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 6:34 AM
To: Metastock bulletin board
Subject: Windows API
Thanks for your email. Sorry but I don't know how to do that.
There is a whole section of advanced Excel VBA programming using Windows API
(Application Programming Interface) that is covered in the WROX programmers
reference book. Usually, that kind of access to the Windows platform and
".dll's" is used by C and C+ programmers.
Where Windows API programming is of interest is when you want to take over
the entire Excel interface and create your own icon's etc.
As I mentioned earlier, you can make Excel look less and less like Excel and
more like your own program using VBA and VBA access to Windows API.
Using Windows API, as far as I know, is not only complicated but "risky"
because of the lack of error messages and difficulty figuring out what went
wrong when things don't work correctly.
Personally, I'm going to leave all of that to the C and C+ programmers.
"Plain" VBA is complicated enough for an untrained and "clueless" programmer
such as myself.
Maybe Guy or Ton can post some general info about Windows API and the MSDN
library files.
There's suppose to be a "win32api.txt" file that has all of the declarations
for the core windows functions written in VBA notation. I don't know where
it is or how to find it. Maybe Guy uses it in his programming.
Best regards
Walter
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