BF Interpreter - an interpreter for a minimalist programming language
Attached to this thread is an interpreter for a minimalist programming language called Brain***** designed by Urban Müller. It only has eight different commands. The interpreter I made for it can load...
View ArticleConnect Four/Four in a Row game
Here's a simple Connect Four game written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. The game has the following options: -Set who plays first. (red or yellow) -Whether one of the players is the computer, and if...
View Article[VB6] Color Management with GDI+
Updates (see post #2 for bug descriptions): 31 Aug 14: Fixed JPG related GDI+ bug Higher quality images often have a color management profile (ICM/ICC) embedded into their file. These embedded profiles...
View Article[VB6] RSA Public Key Encryption via CNG
Now that Windows XP has joined earlier versions of Windows as unsupported software we can feel more free to move away from legacy technologies. Cryptography API: Next Generation is one of the new...
View Article[VB6] RSA Data Signing via CNG
One of the things we get in post-XP Windows is a new crypto library. This offers a number of small advantages such as being a lttle more "rational" from a usage standpoint (calls are somewhat more...
View Article[VB6, Vista+] SplitButtons
Now that more people are moving off Windows XP we can start using more of the new features added to Windows back in 2006. One of these is a funny control called a "Split Button" which is really a...
View ArticleHTML converter
hello all. I an new to the forum and I have very limited experience in VB. I am looking for the easiest way to convert an HTML table to other formats (csv, etc.) automatically. Any suggestions would be...
View Article[VB6] RLE8 Compression Algorithm for Bitmaps
Microsoft allows 8-bit bitmaps to be compressed using a somewhat simple, not terribly efficient, run length encoding (RLE). Strict rules apply, but is rather easy to encode/decode Quote: Originally...
View Article[VB6] RLE8 Compression Algorithm for Bitmaps (Updated)
Updated. Added another tweak that works pretty well. Post #2 describes additional tweaks that can be made. The tweak in this update was to attempt merging the scanline's final uncompressed and...
View Article[VB6, Vista+] Query Windows Search
Now that Windows XP is dead we can feel free to make wider use of new features of Windows introduced nearly 8 years ago. One of these that I see almost no use of by VB6 programmers is the ability to...
View Article[VB6, Vista+] Simple Task Dialog
I posted sample code using this class for raising simple Task Dialogs several times over the years, but I never gave it a CodeBank thread of its own. Task Dialogs Now that Windows XP is dead we can...
View ArticleNice Textboxes
Why some functions are so difficult to find. I would like to have some controls without the restrictions for using...this or that themes..manifests or other bad habits.. So i wrote some textboxes. All...
View Article[VB6] Color Management with GDI+ (updated 20 Sep 14)
Updates (see post #2 for bug descriptions): 20 Sep 14 :: Added patch for a specific case when GdipBitmapLockBits fails to lock image data :: Added support for JPGs where GDI+ won't return any ICC...
View Article[VB6] TaskDialogIndirect Simple Implementation
So I really liked the implementations of TaskDialog that I've seen, and wanted to take it a bit further. TaskDialogIndirect offers a far greater number of options: This is the first version; a basic...
View ArticleVB6 - Hidden Conversations V3
On the surface, Version 3 looks very much like Versions 1 & 2. Underneath the hood however, cSocket2.cls has been replaced by the slimmer and faster NewSocket.cls, as well as utilizing an updated...
View ArticleNice Textboxes version2.1 Plus Varius Selectors
Why some functions are so difficult to find. I would like to have some controls without the restrictions for using...this or that themes..manifests or other bad habits.. So i wrote some textboxes. All...
View Article[VB6] TaskDialogIndirect: Complete class implementation of Vista+ Task Dialogs
cTaskDialog 0.4 Say goodbye to unsightly, primitive messageboxes forever! Download Attachment: cTaskDialog 0.4.zip **If you have 0.3 please replace it. Important bugfixes have been made with dll icons...
View ArticleNice Textboxes Plus Varius Selectors
Why some functions are so difficult to find. I would like to have some controls without the restrictions for using...this or that themes..manifests or other bad habits.. So i wrote some textboxes. All...
View Article[VB6] NetWkstaUserEnum API wrapper
While most people won't need this I've been seeing threads requesting it lately. A common problem is that the results of a query against a Jet MDB's active user roster via ADO and SCHEMA_ID_ROSTER...
View Article[RESOLVED] What is the best way to resize only certain things on a form?
I'm coding a chat/server client and I'm having some issues trying to get resizing working correctly. I have a chat form that looks like this. I'm wanting to keep the top labels, textbox, and buttons...
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