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This is very good progress. I understand that the differences between Jabaco and VB6 are relatively small, but if I have to make 800 changes in 40 forms, I will not be able to do that often. I will then have to maintain separate versions and any additions to one will have to be done to the other also. Can Jabaco now accept Input #4, i, j, k or does it have to follow the syntax with parentheses? Perhaps it is not a very big task to accept the Line and PSet syntax from VB6 because Jabaco already h...
I would like to suggest once again that it would be good to accept VB6 syntax for file opening, reading, writing and closing operations, as well as basic graphics operations. This would make it much easier to port larger programs from VB6 to Jabaco. It would be much more convenient if we don't have to maintain two different versions, and I think it will attract more users also.
I agree with this. The big attraction of Jabaco is that most of VB6 stuff does not have to be changed. But if all the VB6 syntax could be accepted, more people will be interested in converting more and bigger programs to Jabaco. I realise that Jabaco is built on completely object oriented .Net -like framework. People are today able to get VB Express 2008 do the conversion from VB6 with equal ease. It is therefore highly desirable that Jabaco provides slightly more value in terms of syntax compat...
Looks like there is good progress in this version. From my point of view, it would be useful if there is more syntax compatibility with VB6. For example, the file operations require a different syntax, and the Print command does not seem to be there. The consequence is that when I start moving my larger VB6 programs to Jabaco, I will have to make a lot of changes, which is no problem if I do it only once, but then the VB6 version becomes more or less useless. Or if I make changes in the VB6 vers...
I tried Form1.Line (x1,y1,x2,y2,0,RGB(255,0,0) but it draws in black. Some day I will have to draw several lines or curves for plots, and colours will be essential then. Is there a simple way to convert from twips to pixels, which I think Jabaco uses?
It might be too much to ask Jabaco to do everything that VB 6 does and with exactly the same syntax. In my opinion, the basic commands and features of VB 6 should work in Jabaco soon, and later more advanced functions can be implemented. This would allow more people to shift their work to Jabaco with less resistance and less effort. This is why I wrote earlier that it would be good if someone maintains a wish list of changes/features for the next few versions, and let Manuel decide on the priori...
Quoted from "OlimilO" i have a love-hate-relationship to this feature. OK somehow it could be useful, but in VB you can not switch this off, and so often it is not possible to have every equalsign "=" below the other like you would do it in mathematic notation. What about making this feature switchable on/off? suggestion: (just like the commenting-button) if you select the desired lines, Jabaco could do the automatic formatting, or you could switch it on permanent. other suggestion, what about ...
Icons make programs look more professional. Jabaco takes any bitmap as an icon to show on the upper left corner of the forms, but it would be good to show it also on Windows Explorer. Is there some way to do that?
Engineers have used Fortran most of their lives until the late 1980s, and a lot of engineering software is still in Fortran. New standards are still issued, and a colleague just bought a Visual Fortran compiler last month.
This is my problem also. Have you found a solution?
Some more information: When I try to run a project, on the left side at the bottom on black background I get *** JDWP-Connection established... Start ... Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_14 --- Console closed in 6 sec. On the right side at the bottom on black background I get Listening for transport dt_shmem at address: Jabaco68127531x219 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: VBLoader Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: VBLoader at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.securit...
Yes, Java is visible in the control panel (says Java (TM) Control Panel) and I could start it by double clicking. It results in a small window with various setting options: General, Update, Java, Security and Advanced. On the General page, there are About...; Network Settings...; Settings...; and View... for temporary Internet files.
I downloaded Java one more time, but it did not help. I downloaded from www.java.com, and it was quite large. Now I suspect I should have downloaded from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. Which is the right place to download JRE 1.6? Since I know nothing about Java, I couldn't easily distinguish between JRE and the development kit.
I have the same problem. I too am using Win XP. Let me know how your problem got solved. I even downloaded Java twice.
These files were there. I even tried the samples. The problem seems to be with Java, as I mentioned in another thread. How does Jabaco know where Java sits on my machine?
Thanks for your reply. I don't have ActiveX objects or database matters at all. Some of the forms use a couple of APIs like gdi32 and user32. Some use BitBlt, but otherwise mostly simple stuff which I now believe Jabaco will handle without needing changes. File handling needs a different syntax but that I think I will manage. I tried writing a simple program with two controls and two lines of code, and Jabaco could convert it fine. My bigger problem now is that I can't get even a trivial program...
This is my first attempt to write a small code doing Text1.Text = "Yes" and Label1.Caption = "asdfjk" in response to Command1_Click. But I can't even get to see the Form on the screen as a window. In VB, we have to specify where the program should start. In Jabaco, I could not figure out, and the result is the error of not finding the Sub Main. Is there something I have to add to Module1? Thanks. I will later try to take in three or four VB6 forms with 4 modules, and see how far I manage. I know...
Really, a short manual of just a couple of pages will make life easier for people considering the move to Jabaco. The manual does not have to teach VB6, but just the common features which needs to be changed for Jabaco. This will also bring more people to Jabaco when they see that it is not that difficult. Today, the most difficult thing is to figure out how much trouble it will take to move to Jabaco.
How do I figure out which form is the most difficult one? I don't know which features require the most changes. Thanks.
Jabaco seems to be an excellent alternative to VB6. However, there are some differences, which one can perhaps learn quickly. But it would be good to have a list of the differences somewhere to make debugging easier. I have over 40 forms in VB6 (engineering calculations, lots of plots), and I suspect it will take a lot of effort to put them in Jabaco unless there is a good user's manual, preferably listing what needs to be changed from VB6 to Jabaco. I read that you cannot have an array of text ...
