In article <rsikut82tdebpojsaso85qf49ntkg2maap@4ax.com> , Lutz Kretzschmar
<lut### [at] stmuccom>  wrote:

> I did, but I'm afraid I can't be any help either. I have zero idea
> whether VB is up to this or not.

It is possible to interface abritrary DLLs to VB.  It should be covered in
any "advanced" VB book.  Or, try some of the tutorials on the web.
Basically all you need to do is write function prototypes.  I.e.e see the
section titles "Using Your DLL in Your VB Programs" on
<http://www.boondog.com/..%5Ctutorials%5Cdlltutor%5Cdlltutor.htm>.  Of
course, this still requires a bit of understadning of C in order to create a
matching VB function prototypes.  but this tutorial should be a good start.

For more, try this search:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=visual+basic+DLL+interface&btnG=G>


    Thorsten


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Oh, I see. Thanks. I'll try it.

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//Mahalis
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
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"Batronyx" <bat### [at] alliancecablenet> wrote in message
news:3beb6cc2@news.povray.org...
> As far as I know VB 6.0 only does ActiveX DLLs. I know nothing of WinPOV's
GUI
> extension requirements so I couldn't say if this was feasible or not.
Meanwhile,
> you could create the color picker as a standalone app and add it to the
tools
> menu, transferring color data via the clipboard.
>
> Batronyx ^"^

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Hi Thorsten Froehlich, you recently wrote in povray.programming:

> It is possible to interface abritrary DLLs to VB.  It should be covered in
> any "advanced" VB book.  Or, try some of the tutorials on the web.
Thanks for the hints, maybe Mahalis can do something with those
resources. As for me I'll stick to C++ :-)

Regards,

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

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