"Every dog has its day. And VB got its way today"
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We normally look down VB (and hence VB.NET) because of its innumerous shortcomings. Today I had to make a quick utility to work on a export format. Though I started the 10-minute tool as a console application, in less than 30 minutes, I wanted a bit of small extensions like putting up a small inputbox. If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work. Fortunately, the quickly and nifty
Microsoft.Visualbasic
lended a helping hand with its 'Interaction.Inputbox' and a few other methods. Thank you, VB. :)
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We normally look down VB (and hence VB.NET) because of its innumerous shortcomings. Today I had to make a quick utility to work on a export format. Though I started the 10-minute tool as a console application, in less than 30 minutes, I wanted a bit of small extensions like putting up a small inputbox. If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work. Fortunately, the quickly and nifty
Microsoft.Visualbasic
lended a helping hand with its 'Interaction.Inputbox' and a few other methods. Thank you, VB. :)
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Leave the man-points in the brown box on the way. Door is to the North. :) On a serious note though, I use MFC for things like that.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Leave the man-points in the brown box on the way. Door is to the North. :) On a serious note though, I use MFC for things like that.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
On a serious note though, I use MFC for things like that.
I would love too but at the moment I do not have a knowledge of the same.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
On a serious note though, I use MFC for things like that.
I would love too but at the moment I do not have a knowledge of the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!What do you mean, "at the moment"? MFC was soooo 20 years ago[^] dude. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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What do you mean, "at the moment"? MFC was soooo 20 years ago[^] dude. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
What do you mean, "at the moment"? MFC was soooo 20 years ago[^] dude. :)
Yes dude. I have worked on a bit of MFC and C++ during college days but never got an opportunity to get hands wet on it after that. Turned towards web and applications development with either LAMP Stack or ASP or ASP.NET.
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Leave the man-points in the brown box on the way. Door is to the North. :) On a serious note though, I use MFC for things like that.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Years ago, I've used, re-used and abused that InputBox thing you wrote and published. :laugh: But MFC does have CEdit which serves good. And there's there's CRichEditCtrl for the greedy ones.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I think there are only user-contributions: VB Like InputBox for MFC[^]
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Years ago, I've used, re-used and abused that InputBox thing you wrote and published. :laugh: But MFC does have CEdit which serves good. And there's there's CRichEditCtrl for the greedy ones.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Years ago, I've used, re-used and abused that InputBox thing you wrote and published. :laugh:
I didn't want to mention it since I wrote that so long ago and today I bet the code would seem rather crappy to me :-O
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
But MFC does have CEdit which serves good. And there's there's CRichEdit for the greedy ones.
True!
Regards, Nish
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I think there are only user-contributions: VB Like InputBox for MFC[^]
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!This one seems to be even better! :rolleyes: CInputBox 1.0[^]
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Years ago, I've used, re-used and abused that InputBox thing you wrote and published. :laugh:
I didn't want to mention it since I wrote that so long ago and today I bet the code would seem rather crappy to me :-O
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
But MFC does have CEdit which serves good. And there's there's CRichEdit for the greedy ones.
True!
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Nish Sivakumar wrote:
I didn't want to mention it since I wrote that so long ago and today I bet the code would seem rather crappy to me :O
That's several years ago, so let that guilt of bad code not kill you. :) But then I was using it for quick and nasty things, and later evolved writing my own nasty code better and sophisticated controls.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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This one seems to be even better! :rolleyes: CInputBox 1.0[^]
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Have you no shame, man!! :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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We normally look down VB (and hence VB.NET) because of its innumerous shortcomings. Today I had to make a quick utility to work on a export format. Though I started the 10-minute tool as a console application, in less than 30 minutes, I wanted a bit of small extensions like putting up a small inputbox. If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work. Fortunately, the quickly and nifty
Microsoft.Visualbasic
lended a helping hand with its 'Interaction.Inputbox' and a few other methods. Thank you, VB. :)
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work.
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We normally look down VB (and hence VB.NET) because of its innumerous shortcomings. Today I had to make a quick utility to work on a export format. Though I started the 10-minute tool as a console application, in less than 30 minutes, I wanted a bit of small extensions like putting up a small inputbox. If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work. Fortunately, the quickly and nifty
Microsoft.Visualbasic
lended a helping hand with its 'Interaction.Inputbox' and a few other methods. Thank you, VB. :)
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Using forms programmatically woudn't have been too hard honestly....
var f = new Form();
var t = new TextBox() { Dock = DockStyle.Fill };f.Controls.Add(t);
f.Controls.Add(new Label() { Dock = DockStyle.Left, Text = "Give me input: " });
f.ShowDialog();
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What do you mean, "at the moment"? MFC was soooo 20 years ago[^] dude. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
That's a great one :) Despite each new fad coming in as the next big thing then being promptly dropped good old MFC/C++ is still going strong.
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Using forms programmatically woudn't have been too hard honestly....
var f = new Form();
var t = new TextBox() { Dock = DockStyle.Fill };f.Controls.Add(t);
f.Controls.Add(new Label() { Dock = DockStyle.Left, Text = "Give me input: " });
f.ShowDialog();
/* Insert code here to grab the t.Text value */Interesting. Thanks Andrew for the snippet.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! -
That's a great one :) Despite each new fad coming in as the next big thing then being promptly dropped good old MFC/C++ is still going strong.
Stayed up making some unavoidable and necessary changes to some rickety old, but excellently written C code. Or in a word, Joy. Jon done, so I'm off to bed. G'nite. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Have you no shame, man!! :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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We normally look down VB (and hence VB.NET) because of its innumerous shortcomings. Today I had to make a quick utility to work on a export format. Though I started the 10-minute tool as a console application, in less than 30 minutes, I wanted a bit of small extensions like putting up a small inputbox. If I had to convert the entire 10 line app to Windows forms it would have been a long work. Fortunately, the quickly and nifty
Microsoft.Visualbasic
lended a helping hand with its 'Interaction.Inputbox' and a few other methods. Thank you, VB. :)
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Sorry to hear that. I can't mark you down 50,000 points but for for cussing at all of us by using VB you deserve nothing less. :-D
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Sorry to hear that. I can't mark you down 50,000 points but for for cussing at all of us by using VB you deserve nothing less. :-D
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
:)
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!