Anyone familiar enough with both Visual Basic and Visual C++ to be able to
put together a list of defines for Visual Basic? I know VB well enough to
program many of these requests,  such as the endpoint-endpoint plugin, or
the poly idea I came up with earlier.

Maybe Lutz could lend a hand? I've looked at the SDK in an attempt to figure
out how the ImportStuff plugin works... but no dice.


Twyst

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Sorry, this is offtopic(I mean, really offtopic), but is there any way to make a
program consisting of C++ and Visual Basic? I need to do this for something, as
I know C++ better(and prefer inheritence), but I need a good way to do
graphics...I want to import C++ code into Visual Basic 5 somehow...is this
possible, and can you do function calls, etc?

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Whatever hell the newsgroups gods subject me to is
deserved. I will try to never send such an offtopic message again.

Twyst wrote:

> Anyone familiar enough with both Visual Basic and Visual C++ to be able to
> put together a list of defines for Visual Basic? I know VB well enough to
> program many of these requests,  such as the endpoint-endpoint plugin, or
> the poly idea I came up with earlier.
>
> Maybe Lutz could lend a hand? I've looked at the SDK in an attempt to figure
> out how the ImportStuff plugin works... but no dice.
>
> Twyst



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Alex Magidow wrote in message <37167EF1.A69656EB@mninter.net>...
>Sorry, this is offtopic(I mean, really offtopic), but is there any way to
make a
>program consisting of C++ and Visual Basic? I need to do this for
something, as
>I know C++ better(and prefer inheritence), but I need a good way to do
>graphics...I want to import C++ code into Visual Basic 5 somehow...is this
>possible, and can you do function calls, etc?


a) Make the C++ code into a DLL (Should then be called in much the same way
that the Win32 API is called from VB, I guess) with something like

Declare function my_function Lib "MyDLL.dll" alias
"NameOfFunctionInDllExportTable" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long)

b) Use COM automation. That is create a dispatch interface that is
implemented in C++ and then your VB program will be able to call your C++
code in the same way that you call methods and change the properties of the
.ocx controls you use in VB. Well, there's far more to COM than that one
line sentance, but you should be able to find references in your C++ and VB
docs.

Hope that helps.
--
Michael (_leahciM_ at email dot msn dot com).

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Hi Alex Magidow, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> Sorry, this is offtopic(I mean, really offtopic), 
Go stand in the corner..... <g>

> but is there any way to make a program consisting 
> of C++ and Visual Basic? 
Well, yes, sort of. You can make a Visual Basic program call functions
in a DLL. The DLL can be C/C++ or anything else. I think the interface
between VB and DLL would need to be function-based, i.e. no classes or
anything.

I don't think making a C++ program that calls VB is possible. Unless
you can make a VB DLL, of course. But I don't even have VB installed,
so I could be way off base here<g>.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Hi Twyst, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> Maybe Lutz could lend a hand? I've looked at the SDK in an attempt to figure
> out how the ImportStuff plugin works... but no dice.
I have zero experience with VB, so I can't be much help, I'm afraid.
Sorry.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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I could help w/the vb side of things, I preferr VB over c but sometimes I
use C dlls to domundane tasks
Twyst <twy### [at] twystednet> wrote in message
news:371656bb.0@news.povray.org...
> Anyone familiar enough with both Visual Basic and Visual C++ to be able to
> put together a list of defines for Visual Basic? I know VB well enough to
> program many of these requests,  such as the endpoint-endpoint plugin, or
> the poly idea I came up with earlier.
>
> Maybe Lutz could lend a hand? I've looked at the SDK in an attempt to
figure
> out how the ImportStuff plugin works... but no dice.
>
>
> Twyst
>
>

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