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Hi Guy
A VB baby?? ... Right ... you're installing Visual Studio Professional and
I'm struggling away with the "plain vanilla" VB standard version. The "Black
Book" sounds interesting however, will have to check it out.
Am totally amazed at the UserForms that can be created using VBA in Excel.
They are so easy to make and add "stuff" too ... I can even use non-standard
colours like "purple" <G> now that I found the colour codes and the colour
palette in the properties section for each UserForm.
Hope that you get unblocked soon. I've heard about those nasty "blocks" that
the old guys at the home develop. <G>
Best regards
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Tann <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:42 PM
Subject: VB 6.0 book @ CostCo
| 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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