Thread: Visual Basic Vs Basic

I once tried out visual basic. I think it's more capable then basic.

VB adds the fact that now you don't have to do everything with JUST code. It's called object oriented programming, and really makes for quicker work imo. Did this in school a lot (college program) and found it to be great. Lots of versions available as well, and vbcode.com adds inspiration once in a while to work on something new.

Originally Posted by Scaryspikes

VB adds the fact that now you don't have to do everything with JUST code. It's called object oriented programming, and really makes for quicker work imo. Did this in school a lot (college program) and found it to be great. Lots of versions available as well, and vbcode.com adds inspiration once in a while to work on something new.

OOP is a methodology, mostly applied through code. Hence C++, Java and the like. What you're thinking of is the wizards included with VS, not OOP.

Sorry Sun, what I meant was (and I remember this from doing programming in college) that OOP meant the added visual objects that assist you with programming in VB. For example forms, fields, and the like. Whereas with C, it's mostly code without a lot of the point and click, drag and drop kind of feel to it. I like it more really. That's why I prefer VB, because after the flow charts and writing all the initial code, playing around with the GUI elements of any given application makes the development cycle more fun.

Edit - Then again, by far, I am anything but a professional programmer :P

Visual Basic .NET is better than both.

Originally Posted by Comp_guru

Visual Basic .NET is better than both.

The only reason VB .NET exists is because MS didn't want to strand all their VB6 coders when they migrated to .NET. C# is the language they're trying to push now, VB .NET is just really a necessary throw over from the past. C++ .NET is probably going to fade away as well, seeing as MS want to replace it with C#, therefore, they will just create incompatibilities to put people off using it. Supposidly VB/VB .NET is easy for beginners, but I'm not convinced... I think C# could potentially be just as easy, seeing as they're the same language with different syntaxs.

Originally Posted by Scaryspikes

Sorry Sun, what I meant was (and I remember this from doing programming in college) that OOP meant the added visual objects that assist you with programming in VB. For example forms, fields, and the like. Whereas with C, it's mostly code without a lot of the point and click, drag and drop kind of feel to it. I like it more really. That's why I prefer VB, because after the flow charts and writing all the initial code, playing around with the GUI elements of any given application makes the development cycle more fun.

Edit - Then again, by far, I am anything but a professional programmer :P

Yeah, NetBeans for Java has a very similar thing, except it better because..... well... it's Java, not a .NET language. You can use it in Java to generate both applets and windowed applications... and even full screen applications, if you know your AWT stuff pretty well. VS6 had it as well, but the difference is, is that VS6 used MFC to generate Win32 C89/C++ code, whilst .NET languages (Like VB .NET) use the IL to power the GUIs.

Oh yeah, I'm going collage next year... If I have to use those god damn wizards to generate GUI code there, I will be pissed, lol. Let alone using VB.... But then again, collages are sucking up to .NET, so it'll probably be the case.

By the way, the VB GUI wizard, probably writes the generated code in a OOP manner, so you're technically right.

Mod's note - Dupe thread, I merged into a older one. -1 rep.

Hi guys!

I been using Real Basic for a few years and have found it to be a buggy piece of crap so i'm moving my project over to Visual Basic 6 and starting it all from scratch so that its cleaner.

I am wondering if anyone has had experience with VB6 and know how to make it so that when the mouse is over an Image it will change to a different image, and when the mouse is taken off of the image it returns to the original image.

I have used MouseMove to make the image change when the mouse is over the image.. But not sure how to make the image change back when I move the mouse off =/

Any help would be greatly appreciated :D

ps. if anyone knows much about Real Basic let me know! I'd love to get a few tips off you.