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Re: The Beep Function.

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Subject Re: The Beep Function.
Date 2012-01-13 12:40 +1100
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"Peter Nolan" <peter.nolan40@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ff462f86-bd0b-42bf-b52d-16eb4e1c792e@t8g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 11, 3:21 pm, "DaveO" <d...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

...If I say write:

10 Print "Hello"

in Qbasic for example I as a intuitive physicist want to know about
every process that happens inside the machine...
...
There is another thing that sends me around the bend when I try to
code and that is the error messages that have never told me anything.
...

If I type in a few lines of code and run it to get an error message that is 
coming at me
at quite literally at the speed of light itself I find that I'm literally 
taken aback in the chair in front of the screen...

Peter.

Hi Peter

I too am interested in this case and your approach. I came very late to VB6 
and at 71 I find it becoming more and more intuitive. Although Micro$oft 
have dumped it in favour of dot.net (which is NOT intuitive and doesn't even 
have proper printer support) I love VB6.  I started in 1980 and my first 
programs were on a TRS-80 in interpreter BASIC, which I taught myself. You 
talk about error messages that drive you mad. Well, there's nothing new 
under the sun. Back in the 1980s you would often get an error message in 
BASIC that said, literally, 'Too many lines in 295'!   In fact, as I 
discovered purely by trial and error, that meant that meant that the floppy 
disc drive door was open!

I moved on to QBASIC, which I though was magic with very fast compiling, and 
ran my engineering office with a networked application on DOS that never 
gave a hiccup. Then I was dragged kicking and screming into VB6. After a bit 
of a learning curve I am so glad I was. It's great.

And you are so right to thank Mike. Despite the remarks of some here, Mike 
is an absolute VB6 expert and can spend hours putting people on the straight 
and narrow. 

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