Hey guys, I've been working on an app.
The idea is to have it set to autorun. It would popup with the menu which would let you check off the actions you want performed as the drive starts up. It also includes a button which if clicked, would act as a mailto link, so they can contact you.
It would include an .ini file that would allow you to completely customize it. Pretty much everything could be tweaked in the ini file, including:
>Image
>The text and actions performed by the first two checkboxes.
>The mailto link in the "email Drive Owner" button.
>The text in the Status Strip.
However, although I have created the GUI for this, I'm still learning how to code, so I haven't made a working model yet. (I made it in Visual Basic 2005 Express, so I think it might want to use the .net framework, not sure)
Since it doesn't really work yet, I figured that I'd hold off on releasing it. But whenever I do, it will definitely be Open-Source. (Most likely GPL)
If enough interest is shown in this, I might zip it up and include a link
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It looks sweet, I think the option to e-mail the drive owner is fantastic.
If your developing it in VB 2005 it will require .NET 2.0 which will not be on 95% of machines unless someone specifically installed it.
I did a few apps in VB 2003 but stopped using it for that reason.
Currently learning delhpi, eventually want to learn C++.
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
Is there an IDE I can use which works with VB6? Or should I try a different language?
Please keep in mind, I'm a beginner.
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There is an IDE for VB6 same as for VB.NET 2003/2005.
I tried using VB6 for a couple of my apps and found there were still systems it didn't work on though.
For portability I would recommend trying a different language.
Having used VB6 and VB.NET 2003 and Delphi I would say try Delphi, the level of difficulty is about the same for all 3. IMHO
C++ would probably be the best way to go but I haven't tried developing in C++ yet and have heard the difficulty level is much higher, anyone else care to comment on this?
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
I would agree that C++ is pretty hard to learn, I came from VB.NET originally (and I still love it as a language) and things like pointers were pretty hard to get my head around. I guess that the best thing to do would be to have a look at a few languages and see which one you like best (as for C++ I would recommend looking at something like the wxWidgets library for writing GUI's, along with one of it's form designer programs.)
When coming from PHP, since the definition of pointers is completely different.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Delphi sounds like a good language to use, but I was checking out TurboDelphi (which seems like the only free IDE available), and it required me to create some kind of account on their site.
Borland sounds just as consumer-unfriendly (if not more so) than Microsoft.
Is there a free IDE currently available for VB 6.0?
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I use TurboDelphi for my Menu which is a clone of PAM.
I believe XRCA uses it as well for his Port of the PortableApps Menu. Not sure if John uses it or the full version.
I don't know of a free IDE for VB6.
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
I'm going to try to learn Delphi now.
Wish me luck!
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Good Luck
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
I have an idea:
Why not have checkboxes next to the choices and have so you can launch the checked options in one click.
The user would check the boxes of the options they want to run, and then click the "Go" button, and it would launch the checked options.
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So, um, Is there an IDE that anybody knows of which codes in VB6?
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I think VB6 comes with an IDE (or maybe IS an IDE), which is basically the old Visual Studio that M$ doesn't sell any more. Or are you looking for an IDE besides that? The operative word is "sell"; I don't think it is officially available for sale any more, which means it is not supposed to be around for new programmers to learn. They are supposed to learn VB.NET...
VB6 requires a large run-time DLL file (and sometimes several). A lot of programs install the DLLs, but not every machine has it/them.
Have you looked at AutoIT? It seems to be fairly simple to use and doesn't have much run-time overhead. It comes with an editor that is supposed to provide some IDE-like functionality. It's probably not what you are looking for, but it might be close.
Turbo Delphi (Explorer) looks like a free app to get you hooked on the Borland way of doing things. That way you'll want to graduate to the full versions of Delphi, which are quite expensive. It's not a bad thing to do, you can do worse than learn to program in that environment, but just be aware that Borland is trying to get you hooked.
MC
I was looking for the VB6 IDE, but it doesn't seem to be available online anywhere.
Thanks for the tip on TurboDelphi.
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I think I might be able to give you a pointer to one, but not on this forum...
MC