Hi Guys:
Bruce, I am older than I care to admit and don't really enjoy programming
anymore.
I just do it when I need a tool or some program to do something that either
doesn't exist or something I want to have customized for my personal
accessibility so creating a game to learn a language is a young bucks game.
As for vb.net I always turn off anything dynamic so long as it doesn't
impair the IDE operation.
It has been some time but I think I turn off intellisense, auto parameters,
auto error reporting and likely a couple of others I can check out if you
are going to look at vb.net as a WE scripting language.
The major trick is to try and set every window you open to be tabbed
documents and then you can close them with the standard ctrl-f4, or alt-f4
always get them mixed up when not inside the editor.
One closes a window the other closes the project - I just do it without
thinking about it from so many years of typing.
You set all windows under the windows menu on the main menu bar.
The 2013 layout is a little diferent than earlier versions and I have done
little with so far except to build a small test project to check out the use
of the new LocalDB object and tweak my financial platform some.
If you guys are thinking of scripting using vb.net I will run through some
settings in the tools menu > Options IDE Settings tabbed Treeview.
My trial WE scripts created in vb.net are on my old computer (xp machine)
but I can bring them over and have them converted to the 2013 format or
whatever.
I am not sure if vb.net still handles a com interface the same way it did
back in 2008 so actually I would recommend creating a project from scratch
if you want to go that route and add the WindowEyes dll(s), reference the
appropriate one in the project and build a Hello World app to get started
testing it out.
If you guys document the steps you use along the way you will have nice
source for a tutorial if others want to go the vb.net, or even c# or C++,
route depending on which language you pick inside the VS Environment but I
use vb.net so that is what I do but using c# is a good option as well - I
think converting back and forth using a automatic code converter might make
making both samples easy and there are a couple of samples on the GW
Documentation alreadyfor vb.net and I think C# - I forget its been several
years since I visited this whole topic.
If you try sripting for WE in vb.net I will see what I have, check out my
old projects and tutorials for setting up the ide and all that jazz and help
out if I can.
It is a big job to get up to speed with new technicals and using vb.net is
no diferent but it is massively powerful once you pick it up.
Let meknow if you want to build a hello world project with the WE COM API
hooked up and we might start the planning process, setting up the IDE
options, getting the WE COM API into the project andchecking out existing
sample code bases where available.
Rick USA
