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turkulainen

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Date of registration: Jun 30th 2009

Location: Turku, Finland

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Saturday, August 8th 2009, 6:13pm

Syntax compatibility

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 version, I will have to make corresponding changes in Jabaco version every time. If I would be able to make changes in VB6 versions and then just open them in Jabaco without needing more than a couple of lines of changes, it would be very good.

Perhaps this is difficult, but perhaps not as difficult as one might guess because I don't use fancy or advanced functions in VB6 - I am an engineer and not a programmer (read: nerd), so most of my programming is engineering mathematics calculations and displaying results as plots of various kinds. And by the way, I don't use the grid either in the programs. A lot of results are written with Print statements in plain text files and are often read by other VB6 programs. I look forward to hearing Manuel's and other people's opinions about better syntax compatibility with VB6.

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