From: "blank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc References: <491f49f4-a678-4420-b0e4-935b398adc7b@a40g2000vbu.googlegroups.com> <7b72a5b5-5662-4632-b3b9-9f45a985c9fd@z12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <7a47f23c-fede-4d93-b47b-e27a16513308@n30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: The Beep Function. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:40:45 +1100 Lines: 46 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.245.83.181 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.245.83.181 Message-ID: <4f0f8bcd$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1326418893 220.245.83.181 (13 Jan 2012 12:41:33 +1000) Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-03.inet.qwest.net!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:636 "Peter Nolan" wrote in message news:ff462f86-bd0b-42bf-b52d-16eb4e1c792e@t8g2000yqg.googlegroups.com... On Jan 11, 3:21 pm, "DaveO" wrote: ...If I say write: 10 Print "Hello" in Qbasic for example I as a intuitive physicist want to know about every process that happens inside the machine... ... There is another thing that sends me around the bend when I try to code and that is the error messages that have never told me anything. ... If I type in a few lines of code and run it to get an error message that is coming at me at quite literally at the speed of light itself I find that I'm literally taken aback in the chair in front of the screen... Peter. Hi Peter I too am interested in this case and your approach. I came very late to VB6 and at 71 I find it becoming more and more intuitive. Although Micro$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.