I've thrown together a (primitive) screen designer in VB6 - if anybody is interested, I'll post the vb source and stuff, along with some Spin test code.
Ken
I have just finished all my SPIN code and I am now ready to build a Screen display for it. I would be very interested in your VB6 and Spin code for the display.
Simon
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-) BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
Looks good. I personally prefer to use just period, forward and backwards single quotes when creating ASCII Art. That displays reasonably well in the forum here and is okay with the right font chosen and to me looks 'cleaner' ...
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| ON | | OFF |
`----' `-----'
A quick scan of the source can convert .-- or --. etc to what it should be for display, and by scanning vertically as well as horizontally vertical bars and so on can be blended with the characters above and below to build up most of the box graphics characters without having to worry too much about getting the source matching exactly what will be shown. I find that speeds up the manual entry and change of screen designs quite significantly.
VB6 has the ability to take the load off the screen designer so one may as well use its full potential for a little extra effort in coding the application.
Unfortunately unicode in VB6 "as is" doesn't seem that well supported, and one would still have to know the right Alt-NNN key presses to enter the codes ( although a pop-up to insert them or similar could be used ).
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THANKS
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Cheers,
Simon
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
A quick scan of the source can convert .-- or --. etc to what it should be for display, and by scanning vertically as well as horizontally vertical bars and so on can be blended with the characters above and below to build up most of the box graphics characters without having to worry too much about getting the source matching exactly what will be shown. I find that speeds up the manual entry and change of screen designs quite significantly.
VB6 has the ability to take the load off the screen designer so one may as well use its full potential for a little extra effort in coding the application.
Post Edited (hippy) : 2/25/2008 5:35:27 PM GMT
Thank you
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