Displaying Weather Statistics

[Bill Legge]

EB2 - Thanks for your comments. I have had a look at VB.NET - it seemed a huge pile of code and used quite a different approach to creating the code:

1. Design the forms/windows - then automatically, create the code.
2. Glue the bits together with additional code - it's this bit that didn't seem simple/easy to me?

I recently purchasaed 'Visual Basic for Electronics Engineering Application' by Vincent Himpe - it's not the book for a beginner and I need some gentler introduction to VB to get me going.

I've had a look at Liberty Basic and like the feel of it - a more traditional approach to creating code. More work at 'low level' - but that what I've been doing for a few years with PBP.

The Liberty Basic site asks if I want the '32' or '64' bit version? I just want to run it on by PC using windows - which version do I need?

Regards Bill legge

[mackrackit]

I've had a look at Liberty Basic and like the feel of it - a more traditional approach to creating code. More work at 'low level' - but that what I've been doing for a few years with PBP.

The Liberty Basic site asks if I want the '32' or '64' bit version? I just want to run it on by PC using windows - which version do I need?

I will guess you have a 32 bit system. I say that because if you had WIN64 you would know it

[EarlyBird2]

Hi Bill

VB has a few concepts that are hard to understand, objects, methods, collections and properties to name a few. But what you want to do is realy easy in VB 2008 Express. I have time on my hands so if you want to try the VB route let me know.

Steve

[wil@picbasic]

Hi Steve,

I'm interested too. I strugled some weeks with MSCOMM in Excel (VB6) and it will not work with VISTA or Win 7. I got the error 8020, can not read device......
Writing data is ok.

Wil

[EarlyBird2]

Hi Wil

Can you give me more details please like VB code for example.

Steve

[Bill Legge]

EarlyBird2/steve

Sorry to take so long to reply to your kind offer of some support if I use VB Express. I'm still not sure which way to go and don't want to waste time by switching languages - it seems to take me about a year before using a new language gets reasonably productive.

Is VB Express the same as VB 2008 Express?

And can it create professional looking screens on the PC?

As an aside - many years ago, when I was about 7 years old, my mother took me to Sc*nthorpe for a swim in the Easter Holidays - and I thought she liked me! I'm still trying to warm up.

Regards Bill Legge in sunny and warn Australia