Berikco wrote:LarsG wrote:I'm imagining!!
I'm looking at it for real
Well, yes and no... They run at the same time, but can't really be considered the same app in the sense that I described above. There's still a bit of "disconnection" between the two apps. Visual Designer is great, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that combining the complete functionality of both programs into one, as decribed, would be the next logical step.
The side benefit is that you may find it easier to "woo" more VB-ers to PB if you could make it more VB-like in the GUI design sense, and less VB-like in the slow, bloated code sense
So, like VB you would, for example, create your "form" and then put a button on it. Double click on that button and you're taken to the section of code that will deal with the various events that a button can produce. And better yet, a drop down box will have the many events that can be generated (got focus, lost focus, etc). Every gadget and "form" would have this drop down list, and events that don't relate to the current gadget\form would not be selectable. This would not take power away from the programmer, either, because they would still be free to customize their code any way they want. This will just make it quicker (they won't have to look up event names\number etc for what they want to accomplish).
To be sure, this VPB would require quite a bit of work to create with all of the various events, etc. but the end result could be quite something.
A less interesting option is to write a VB->PB code converter, but that would require them to own VB...and it's pretty likely that some of the code one could write in VB6 would not be easily convertable to PB (not yet, anyway!)
Russell
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