Help on help

[oigres P]

I would like VB7 help to be a compiled html file, not a massive cd.
Is it multiple inheritance like C++?
I don't like the VB5/6 user interface, even if Alan Cooper designed it.
Always seems like there is not enough room.
I want a one window per shortcut key. So you can close/open any one window
with a menu/keystroke.
Subclassing to the max (and the documentation to match), what about a Daniel
Appleman actor? So you ask Dan How the **** do I paint the background of
an MDI form? and you get an example program and 10 pages of background notes.
A built-in text formatting function(prettyprinter/VBindenter).
A hungarian notation warning function(text1=txt etc).
I would like VB7 to be able to load the previous file i was working on ,
on restart.
When i open a file i would like it to open the directory I first loaded the
first project from.
More help on Add-ins.
The help file should have at least 1 example program per function.

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan]

> The help file should have at least 1 example program per function.

You don't ask for much, do you? :-)

With user assistance having fewer resources with every version of Microsoft
products, I think they are lucky when they can hit parity with prior
versions. Superiority is something that I doubt is going to happen.

This is a place where 3rd parties will have to cover the ball, I think.

--
?MichKa
(insensitive fruitarian)

random junk of dubious value, a multilingual website, the
54-language TSI Form/Report to Data Access Page Wizard,
and lots of replication "stuff" at the (no scripts required!)
http://www.trigeminal.com/

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"oigres P" <oigres@postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:38d3e475$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I would like VB7 help to be a compiled html file, not a massive cd.
> Is it multiple inheritance like C++?
> I don't like the VB5/6 user interface, even if Alan Cooper designed it.
> Always seems like there is not enough room.
> I want a one window per shortcut key. So you can close/open any one window
> with a menu/keystroke.
> Subclassing to the max (and the documentation to match), what about a
Daniel
> Appleman actor? So you ask Dan How the **** do I paint the background of
> an MDI form? and you get an example program and 10 pages of background
notes.
> A built-in text formatting function(prettyprinter/VBindenter).
> A hungarian notation warning function(text1=txt etc).
> I would like VB7 to be able to load the previous file i was working on ,
> on restart.
> When i open a file i would like it to open the directory I first loaded
the
> first project from.
> More help on Add-ins.
> The help file should have at least 1 example program per function.

[rmeklo]

RE:> A hungarian notation warning function(text1=txt etc).
How about making the default name properties conform to the naming convention?
I think there's a 3rd party (VB Attila) for this but corporate America sometimes
balks at "unnecessary: add-ons.

RE:
>This is a place where 3rd parties will have to cover the ball, I think.

Probably not appropriate to this forum (don't want to start a "language war")
but out of curiousity from what sport does "cover the ball" derive (maybe
rugby)? I've only heard "carry the ball" and "foot (cover) the bill".

[Ray Mercer]

oigres,

> I don't like the VB5/6 user interface, even if Alan Cooper designed it.
> Always seems like there is not enough room.

Try SDI with all docking turned off. Works for me...

-Ray Mercer

[Rob Bruce]

> out of curiousity from what sport does "cover the ball" derive (maybe
> rugby)?

FWIW 'Covering' the ball (in the sense of lying on it on the ground to
protect it - which is the only sense I can think of) is illegal in both
Rugby League and Rugby Union football. Nevertheless, covering the ball is
fairly common in Rugby League as a response to the equally illegal practice
of continuing to tackle a player once he has been grounded.

--
Rob

www.rb-ad.dircon.co.uk/rob/excelvba/

[rmeklo]

Thanks from the Western colonies for the clarification!
I hope MS gives third-party vendors ample information in order for them to
take advantage of VB7's inheritance capabilities.

"Rob Bruce" <rob@rb-ad.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> out of curiousity from what sport does "cover the ball" derive (maybe
>> rugby)?
>
>FWIW 'Covering' the ball (in the sense of lying on it on the ground to
>protect it - which is the only sense I can think of) is illegal in both
>Rugby League and Rugby Union football. Nevertheless, covering the ball is
>fairly common in Rugby League as a response to the equally illegal practice
>of continuing to tackle a player once he has been grounded.
>
>--
>Rob
>
>www.rb-ad.dircon.co.uk/rob/excelvba/
>
>
>
>

[oigres P]

I've tried the SDI interface and it seems to me only slightly better. The
Delphi interface used a tab control with the different text files. This seems
much easier to use than the VB5/6 multiple windows.

[Elf]

To get around this I modified the registry so that the short filenames are
resolved to long filenames by the VB IDE. Then I use the Documents to open
my projects.(only necessary in VB5 installs)
Open context menu in explorer...change <"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\VB98\vb5.exe"> to
<"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\vb5.exe" "%1">


Also, if you want the IDE to start the open dialog from a specific
directory, then change the shortcut in the start menu. Properties/Start in:
(C:\My Documents\VB)

> When i open a file i would like it to open the directory I first loaded
the
> first project from.