Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-16 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, That is quite understandable given that you are still using XP. However, whenever you decide to upgrade to Windows 7 or whatever comes after Win 7 you are most likely going to have to begin updating your Visual Basic skills to Visual Basic 2008 or later. That's not only where the market is

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-16 Thread shaun everiss
true jim but then the games you do are not 3d advanced systems. Though with the later win7 and up it looks right now you will have to supply libs and such and later on maybe all vb6 stuff will just not run at all. At 02:57 a.m. 17/01/2011, you wrote: Hi Thomas, Yeah that is one reason that I a

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-16 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yeah that is one reason that I am sticking with VB6. I have always programmed in the Basic IDE. You know whether it was the T I extended Basic, the Atari extended Basic, BasicA, GW Basic, Quick Basic, PDS7 or VB6. It just works for me. BFN Jim C. E. O. Kitchen's Inc. j...

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-16 Thread Jim Kitchen
Thank you Kai, The Jaws alt + delete key will be useful. Thanks again. BFN Jim Some days it just isn't worth banging your head against the keyboard! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-15 Thread Trouble
I didn't even install it after what I've read here and on the programming list. however, I did install dev++ and with a little scripting got the console window reading auto. but at least I can do decent code in it. At 12:46 PM 1/15/2011, you wrote: Hi Jim, Well, the thing is once upon a time

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-15 Thread Philip Bennefall
VC compiler so I don't need to bother with the sloppy Microsoft IDE at all. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-15 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Well, the thing is once upon a time I use to use the Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual C# IDES as well, but as of Visual Studio 2010 the Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, and Visual Web Developer 2010 IDEs are fairly unaccessible. As a result I just do all the code in a text editor,

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-15 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yeah you know I was trying to agree with you. But I do like different tools for different tasks. Like I have Word for reading docx files that I receive from the lawyer etc and I like HJ Pad for the spell checker. But like when I write a simple batch file or check a simple text fi

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Kai
Greetings Jim. JAWS does have a facility for obtaining the current cursor position in pixels: alt + delete. Kai - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Thom

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Sorry, I think I didn't clarify my reasoning about a spell checker. I actually wasn't talking about using a spell checker for programming. I was just pointing out that other text editors that I use like Gedit include one. Although I don't use the spell checker for programming if I write my

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, I know that you and I have a totally different method of programming etc. You know like I like to program in the VB6 IDE. So I do not use Note Pad or any other text editor for writing my code. I write it in the VB6 IDE and then test run it right off. And I use HJ Pad for writing

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, Well, that's fine, but my over allpoint was that Notepad, while functional for programming, isn't always the best option you have. It is rather limited compared to several other text editors I've used. There are plenty of things about Notepad I personally dislike. For example, if you w

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Trouble
o: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Greetings. It does work like that; In your text editor, you write a line of code, write a semicolon if applicable, then hit enter to "break a line" (which means to start a new line). Notepad is horrible. You should consider g

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-14 Thread Damien Pendleton
scussion list" Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Hayden, Well, Notepad lacks a number of features that other text editors out there have. For example, the text editor I often use on Linux called Gedit has a spell checker, a dictionary, can ed

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, Well, Notepad lacks a number of features that other text editors out there have. For example, the text editor I often use on Linux called Gedit has a spell checker, a dictionary, can edit multiple text files at once, and a number of other tools and plugins that just makes it an all arou

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-13 Thread Hayden Presley
ary 12, 2011 1:14 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Greetings. It does work like that; In your text editor, you write a line of code, write a semicolon if applicable, then hit enter to "break a line" (which means to start a new line). Notepad is horrib

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-13 Thread Shiny protector
Thanks TJ. - Original Message - From: "Tj Squires" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:55 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Hayden, You are partially correct. I did not use a semicolon at the end of my include statement

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-12 Thread Shiny protector
Kay. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Muhammed, No. I simply mean pressing the enter key to create a manual line break when starting a n

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I really like Ultraedit. One of its features I love is it can read and save both Dos text and Unix formatted text files. This makes porting code too and from Linux a snap. On 1/12/11, Kai wrote: > Greetings. > > It does work like that; In your text editor, you write a line of code, wri

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, No. I simply mean pressing the enter key to create a manual line break when starting a new statement or if a statement is too long to fit on a single line. For example, some compound if statements are way too long to fit on a single line of code so I press the enter key to make a manu

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Kai
riginal Message - From: "Shiny protector" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! I wish the interface was like auto it. In autoit, you opened the program, and you had this code line. Your at 1, then you could

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Shiny protector
no what I did to start the problem. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Muhammed, You mind explaining that? I think I should make a few notes reg

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Shiny protector
Hi Thomas, When you mean braking a line, do you put 2 lines after every part of code? - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Muhammed, You mind expl

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Kai
, thereby reducing the need to scroll/word wrap. Kai - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi Muhammed, You mind explaining that? I think I should

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, You mind explaining that? I think I should make a few notes regarding programming anything in Notepad. If you have word wrap turned off the first thing you should do is maximize the window so the entire window is visible. If you are writing code in Notepad it is a good idea to make a

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Hayden Presley
list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi, Could someone please send me the correct code so I learn my mistake? - Original Message - From: "Hayden Presley" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [Audys

[Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Shiny protector
Hi Thomas, Um, after I turned off the word rap, it doesn't read things properly on the screen. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audy

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Shiny protector
Ok. I'm going to see whether it is turned off. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi, Do you have word wrap on or off in Notepad? When progr

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-11 Thread Tj Squires
: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi TJ, Hmmm...interesting habbit. Myself I've gotten into the habbit of using semicolons, except in rare cases. But you're right; that manual will be your frien

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Shiny protector
Hi, Could someone please send me the correct code so I learn my mistake? - Original Message - From: "Hayden Presley" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi TJ, Hmmm...interesting h

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Hayden Presley
of the box without reading up on it or learning it beforehand. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Tj Squires Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:56 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] B

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Tj Squires
Hi Hayden, You are partially correct. I did not use a semicolon at the end of my include statements and they work just fine. I believe, after just testing it rather quickly, that it will work either way. As a habbit, though, I would suggest putting semicolons at the end of said statements

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Hayden Presley
e. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 4:12 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi, Do you have word wrap on or off in Note

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Hayden Presley
g] On Behalf Of Tj Squires Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 5:04 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi, To put ti simply, if the line doesn't start a function, conditional statement, or a loop, it should have a semicolon. For instance, switch, if, do, whil

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Tj Squires
Hi, To put ti simply, if the line doesn't start a function, conditional statement, or a loop, it should have a semicolon. For instance, switch, if, do, while, for, and function declarations (void main(), void die(), etc) should not have semicolons. string words; int blah; alert("Woo", "I li

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, I'm not quite sure how to tell you this nicely, but that script is pretty much totally wrong. There are so many errors I'm not really sure where to start pointing them out. HTH --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubs

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Do you have word wrap on or off in Notepad? When programming I always turn word wrap off so it doesn't break a line of code in the middle of a line where it shouldn't. On 1/10/11, Shiny protector wrote: > Well, Thomas, you said don't start out with something big when your trying > to progra

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Liam Erven
t: Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem! Hi, I thought so. But please be more spesific on where I should put the semmy colons. I put them in the wrong place, but I need to no where. - Original Message - From: "Tj Squires" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, January 10,

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Shiny protector
Hi, I thought so. But please be more spesific on where I should put the semmy colons. I put them in the wrong place, but I need to no where. - Original Message - From: "Tj Squires" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [A

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Tj Squires
I see a few problems. 1. You don't have a void main function. 2. Exit is a bgt function itself. I won't go into farther detail becuase 3. You have the semicollon(;)'s all in the wrong places. 4. Your syntax is all wrong. I really do not intend to be rude, but, have you read, and unders

Re: [Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Orin
Void Exit? Uh, na, think you mean a right brace. Orin orin8...@gmail.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks Skype: orin1112 On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Shiny protector wrote: > Well, Thomas, you said don't start out with something big when your trying to > program for the first time. I ha

[Audyssey] BGT problem!

2011-01-10 Thread Shiny protector
Well, Thomas, you said don't start out with something big when your trying to program for the first time. I have a very big problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Here is my code. I think it is crap. alert("Hi," "Welcome! This is Muhammed Deniz, please press space bar to exit!") If_key_p