Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Hey,
I've worked in VB6 for about 8 years. VBA and VBScript might not be
too
bad, but VB6 would be a nightmare. VB6 even within itself operates
thru
COM for many of the things it does and that includes most of the
controls
that you put on a form. Moving applications
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 22:33 +1300, Ralph Mason wrote:
Seems to me that one can easily do a layer to create the com 'controls'
(eg the standard ones provided) on top of WIndows.Forms. Com controls
are supported under windows.
Mono doesn't currently support COM controls anywhere.
I can't
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:25 +1300, Ralph Mason wrote:
I was just reading
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+walks+VB+tight+rope/2100-1007_3-5620821.html?tag=nefd.lede
It seems to me that there is no reason that there can't be a VB6
compiler that would target the CLR.
For all you budding
Hey,
I'm not saying it can't be done -- it obviously can be. I'm just
pointing out that this is A LOT of work; don't underestimate it. A
Delphi-compatible compiler is trivial in comparison. VB6 language
support is easy, the language semantics are easy, it's the class library
support (and
VB6 was syntactically unsuited to .NET so came VB.NET, or so it was
originally laid out. The reality is, if you are mired in VB6 syntax,
go use RealBasic and target Windows, Linux Mac from the same IDE
using the same syntax and compiler. VB6 syntax on top of the Mono
.NET runtime just
Title: RE: [Mono-list] Good Mono Project
-Original Message-
From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:07 PM
To: Jonathan Pryor
Cc: Ralph Mason; Mono List
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Good Mono Project
Hey,
I'm not saying it can't
Hello,
VB6 was syntactically unsuited to .NET so came VB.NET, or so it was
originally laid out. The reality is, if you are mired in VB6 syntax,
go use RealBasic and target Windows, Linux Mac from the same IDE
using the same syntax and compiler. VB6 syntax on top of the Mono
.NET
Hey,
I've worked in VB6 for about 8 years. VBA and VBScript might not be
too
bad, but VB6 would be a nightmare. VB6 even within itself operates
thru
COM for many of the things it does and that includes most of the
controls
that you put on a form. Moving applications would require
