I want to make some tools for a messenger wrote on QT. I've just started reading on QT but still wondered if I can use VB.NET to write the tools (such as reading text , sending text to QT window). I only know VB.Net.
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I have a simple VB Forms based Shuffleboard scoreboard app. I would like to add two overhead live video feeds that show the two scoring areas. This is a one off program that will never see the outside of my basement. I have played with a couple of the available vidcap libraries but there is no way I can justify purchasing a license to get rid of the demo popups.
My C++ skills are near nonexistent and the VB App is well developed and very user friendly, so I really don't want to rebuild the project. All I really want is the background of the scoreboard to be the two video feeds. (This is so that spectators can see the scoring area without having to stand at the table.)
I have been toying with the DirectX libs and C++ using Visual Studio 19. I can achieve the two cam views but cannot find a way to incorporate that into VB. I cannot seem to get the DirectX extensions to expose themselves when I go back to VB. Is this even doable using Visual Basic or am I going to have to rebuild in C++?
What are the differences between these two programming choices
I know that the following features are supported by only HTML/Javascript
1. Flyout control
2. Header Menu
3. Rating Control
Do they have any other difference in terms of controls, integrations, connections, deployment?
html/javascript
html5 and js are open web standards. That's why they work (and act) in nearly every browser the same way. That is the reason why you can develop html5 applications for Mac OS and port it without many extra coding to Windows.
Microsoft however wants to have as many Apps inside the market as possible, that's why they made confession to the web developer and implemented a native looking support to html and Javascript. But there are a lot of Javascript functions, that are only supported by IE10 (in fact, nearly every function you can find in the WinJS-File). If you want to port Win 8 Application to any other Operation System, you have to review your code.
A good example for this is the click-eventhandler in WinJS, which has a event.pointerId to identify multitouch. This is a good easy way but not standard.
XAML/C# or VB
XAML is .NET and so it is fixed to this Framework. You cannot easily port a XAML Application to a mac os. Therefor XAML and C# is very good implemented into Visual Studio (Intellisense,Blend and Design-Views) and has some nice features like LINQ and DataBinding. Also the MVVM pattern allows to split up designers and programmers. In my opinion the documentation on msdn is better for XAML and C# than for Html5 and JS. For games there is also a DirectX implementation which is a better choice because of higher performance.
What to choose?
The decision which way to program is really hard. The following Questions should help:
Which programming language are you more familiar with?
IF OOP -> C# and XAML
IF web and prototype based languages -> HTML and JS
Which type of application will you code?
If it's fixed to Win 8 -> XAML and C#
If it should run on more than one platform -> HTML and JS
Do you like Visual Studio?
If yes -> use XAML and C#
If no -> use HTML and JS, you can than
first develop the app with your common IDE and later import it into
visual studio to create the application.
I come from a Mac background. I developed games with Xcode and Objective-C frameworks.
Recently I moved to Windows and decided to use VB.NET for a while. It is cool.
Here is my intention:
I want to develop a Windows platform game. The game is rather complex, and I will need some kind of "engine" or "editor" to be able to edit my levels and properties easily. The idea is that I can build most of the game with this editor and then the editor will compile the project files and resources into one .exe file for gaming.
Fortunately, I was able to create my editor with VB.NET. I am able to edit levels and such. However, I am not sure about the "compilation" part to create a .exe file and play the game.
Basically I am at the point of designing the "Compile" button in my editor. But I am clueless. I could not find much documentation regarding this topic.
My editor has all variables and information the game needs to run.
I assume that this .exe file is like another VB.NET project (produced by my editor) that will basically take the data it comes with and "run" the game loop alright.
Any ideas, links, etc? Thanks.
**Note: my game is a 2d game with, probably, a vast amount of sprites and such.
Visual Studio is a fantastic IDE for development of Windows apps. Compiling the project is pretty simple. You just compile and it gives you an exe that's in the .NET Framework. Microsoft also has XNA Game Studio to help with game design if you want to look at gaming frameworks for .NET.
Also, you can take files from your editor if they generate vb.net and use the vbc compiler command to compile them into libraries, executables, whatever you like. The command could be something like this:
vbc /reference:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll File.vb
Here's a link to the .NET command line compiler for VB.NET.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. Are you saying that you have an editor (something like a level or map editor?) for your game, and that you want the output of this editor to be embedded into the exe for your actual game application when it compiles?
If that's the case (or something similar to it) then you'll first want to consider how to persist your data to file. Then you could manually add files you've created as embedded resources. Or better yet, create a file type that holds as many 'levels' or 'maps' as you need and embed that. This way as you create more they will just get added to that file and you won't have to keep adding more embedded resources.
Can I automate a windows application running on Wine with Applescript?
If not, is there another way to script a windows app on Wine OSX?
I've not tried it with Wine but with Parallels I just do GUI scripting and send keystrokes directly to the application. Here's a blog post I wrote on it. (Although I use Python + Appscript for scripting primarily)
http://www.libertypages.com/clarktech/?p=1496
Note I send each character separately in that script. You can actually send full strings. I just like it abstracted out so I can add a delay if necessary. So I have a function for sending strings.
If you're not familiar with GUI Scripting I'd look at the following tutorial:
http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
I need to espose some code in my app to the end user so that they can make modifications. Is there a free text editor with intellisense support out there, which I can embed in my application. The code will be VB.NET
#develop is a free [Open Source] IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform.
Notepad++ would work as well (although I don't think it has intelli-sense), but HUGE RED FLAGS are flying up when you say:
expose some code in my app to the end
user so that they can make
modifications.
In my experience the end user should either be logging tickets of things that don't work, or at most getting to play with configuration files.