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Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Sun Mar 18 16:12:24 EDT 2012


Hi Richmond,

At about the same time as your VB6 sojourn, I was doing a commercial Educational Game for youngsters that I had prototyped in HyperCard. I was doing the Mac Version using FutureBasic; thus doing the Window's Version was VERY easy since FB and VB6 were/are amazingly compatible. I could copy my "handlers" which I had written in FB with HC as the pseudo code and paste them with hardly any change in syntax into VB6. Incidentally, since Katrina FB has been free and has somewhat recently incorporated a C compiler into the system. Though not cross platform, it is far superior, I've been told, to RealBasic which is not free by any means. <http://www.stazsoftware.com/> It has an amazing list as well.

Joe Wilkins

On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Richmond wrote:

> On 03/18/2012 09:22 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
>> Hey,,
>> Thanks for the rapid response!!! Sorry I was not clear. The file will never
>> be coming back to LC. It will be on its way a high end composition system
>> never to see LC again.
>> 
>> I currently use VB6 and would like to move more into the LC realm because of
>> its chunk processing philosophy.
> 
> Having been "brought up" on Hypercard - Livecode, I had to take a "side-trip" to Visual Basic 6
> about 8 years ago; not much fun frankly; even worse than a similar adventure I had with Toolbook.
> 
> Unfortunately, the "University" where I did an "MSc" in computers and IT had "climbed into bed"
> with Microsoft, so, despite their claims that what they taught was relevant to all operating systems,
> they fell over themselves to make sure that everything was tied to Microsoft, and spent an awful lot
> of lecture time denigrating Macintosh and Linux. I didn't really learn anything of any value there.
> The only good outcome was that I had to buy a book about Systems development; the lecturer
> seemed to know less about the subject than what I had read in the text book the night before
> the lecture: but, then, for years before he had been a lecturer he had run a shop selling model
> trains in the north of Scotland - how model trains equips one for databases, SDLCs and so on
> has always escaped me; and he was unable to answer that one when I asked him.
> 
> You should find Livecode rather like a breath of fresh air after VB6.
> 
> In fact, come to think of it, I cannot help wondering why people are still using Visual BASIC; especially
> as it ties one to one operating system, one commercial company, and is generally restrictive.
> 
> One of the things I have always liked about Livecode is that each object has its own code in its own
> window. While the first thing that bothered me with VB6 was having to scroll down a seemingly-endless
> list of code to find the bit for each object; which didn't prove all that easy most of the time unless one
> spent buckets of time writing comments in the code.
> 
> It gave me no-end of pleasure to do all my VB6 work using Windows 2000 in a Virtual PC emulator on
> a G4 Macintosh, and all my thesis coding with Runtime Revolution/Livecode on a Mac.
> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Ralph DiMola
>> IT Director
>> Evergreen Information Services
>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net





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