In article <1185854978.702645.126530@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Art Wrok <johnscpierce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I've worked with VB before. I don't think that is a major problem, but
>there will be errors as I go along in this project. When there was a
>bug in the program a message said that help is not available in this
>version. I have only the "Working Model" for students. I'm wondering
>if in general the project in this book can be done with the "Working
>Model" because as far as I can tell by searching the web the whole VB
>6.0 program costs hundreds of dollars and I don't want to invest that
>in this little project I'm doing with my nephew.
Visual Basic 6 is about 9 years old, and it's not sup****ted by
Microsoft anymore. [See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic
,
though Wikipedia is like playing a singleplayer game -- if you don't
like what you see, just hit reload.] Microsoft has released VB.net,
the successor to VB6, but it's incompatible in a lot of areas. On the
plus side, VB.net has an 'express edition', which is free to download
and run. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_.NET
for some
more details.
I'd say that your choices boil down to a few options, none of which
is a clear winner: (1) continue using VB6, and suffer through. (2) try
and switch to VB.net, and hope you can figure out what's changed and
how to work around it. (3) Switch to some other language. Both Pygame
( http://www.pygame.org/
) and XNA Game Studio Express (
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/default.aspx
) are free to
download and use. They're both much better suited for games than any
version of VB, but will be radically different from your VB6 book.
Nathan Mates
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