Visual Basic Thread

[JPS]

Who here at the Pav knows Visual Basic? Just curious.

I don't know how other VB's relate to one another as far as code wise...I'm using 6.0.

[Duel]

Re: Visual Basic Thread

I was in the process of learning it a few years ago but lost motivation and stopped.

[JPS]

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Why'd you lose motivation?

[Duel]

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Lazyness

[Wavelength]

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I've done a little bit of programming using VB; why do you ask?

[Tsunami]

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I'm taking a class in it right now actually.

[DarkwingChuck]

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I took a class in VB. Don't really feel like I know anything though. But I still have the book so if you've got a question maybe I could look it up.

[JPS]

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One I'm just curious as to who does and two I have questions every so often and online help doesnt help at all, and the MSDN is a little too confusing sometimes(Ive self taught myself everything I know)

When I need something new I havent used before, I find out how to do it, but every so often I stumble across something I need that I dont really know how to set up.

Such as matrices, Ive seen plenty of tutorials but none of them explains the step by step things I have to do to use them, I believe I knew how to use them way back when but have forgotten, and nothing I see rings a bell so I may not have ever actually used them.

I need a 65x65 matrix for my RPGM1 map-maker(plus a few other games Im working on that will make things a LOT easier), and I need an easy way of inserting all 4,225 tiles codes that are on a map into the matrix...nesting For()/Next's to "read" them would be easy, I can do that without a problem, the problem is finding out how to insert all 4225 values into the matrix without using up too much coding/time.

The first grid I need to map can be found here.

[Lord Cohliani]

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I am currently reading "Making a Website for DUMMIES" (And I'm only 12 ) They talk about VB in there a lot so I'll probably learn some of it soon lol...

[Stormy]

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Couldn't you input the values in the same fashion that you read them? Thats how I fill arrays (one, two, and three dimensional).

[JPS]

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how do you create a matrix?

Dim MatrixA(65,65)

?

[Stormy]

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Do you know how to make arrays? Show me how to make an array in VB and I might be able to help you. I took a programming class about 4 years ago that used VB6, but I don't remember much.

[JPS]

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Im not sure how to do an array I dont think

I use:

Dim ListA([number])

all the time, dont think thats an array though

It doesnt sound like I know a lot...I know a lot of basic stuff, just nothing about calling up dll's and animation and stuff

[Stormy]

Re: Visual Basic Thread

Try this, to make a 2-dimensional array:

Dim ListA(65,65)

Are the brackets necessary? If so, I'm sure you can figure out where to put them. Lists are collections, same as an Array.

[JPS]

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Thats where Im going to have problems, I'm going to have so many loops to just create a grid it wont be funny, thats why I was initially using string variables, like this:

a1$ = "19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19"
a2$ = "19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19"
a3$ = "19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19"
etc...

and then calling them up with this:

For zz = 0 To 1040 Step 16 'Icons are 16 pixels wide
For x = 1 To 1041 Step 3 'Beginning of next number is every 3 characters in string
s$ = Mid$(a1, x, 2)
DrawMap
Next
Next

Public Sub DrawMap
If s$ = "01" Then PaintPicture b1.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "02" Then PaintPicture b2.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "03" Then PaintPicture b3.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "04" Then PaintPicture b4.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "05" Then PaintPicture b5.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "06" Then PaintPicture b6.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "07" Then PaintPicture b7.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "08" Then PaintPicture b8.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "09" Then PaintPicture b9.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "10" Then PaintPicture b10.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "11" Then PaintPicture b11.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "12" Then PaintPicture b12.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "13" Then PaintPicture b13.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "14" Then PaintPicture b14.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "15" Then PaintPicture b15.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "16" Then PaintPicture b16.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "17" Then PaintPicture b17.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "18" Then PaintPicture b18.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
If s$ = "19" Then PaintPicture b19.Picture, x * 5 + 1, zz
End Sub

But the problem with that is I would need that chunk of code at the top 65 times because Ill have to access a1, a2, a3.. using a Mid$(), and the string part of the Mid$ cant be called up any way other way beside direct input(as seen above), and if I do that it'll return a "Procedure Too Large" error.

The matrix would make drawing it easier, but I need to make the input easier, Id like to use a matrix for it, but I dont know if I'll be able too..

Is there a way to fill an entire matrix row all at once? I know this doesnt work this is just to give you an idea of what Im talking about:

For x=1 to 65
MatrixA(x,1) = "19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19"
Next

Or will I end up nesting all those loops together?

I suppose it would be possible to have the program break strings apart and insert each value automatically into the matrix, kind of like what I did with the first example.