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| Hello; Does or has anybody in the group used Visual Basic for programing the RCX. I see a lot of LegoOS and NQC but nothing on Visual Basic, Why? Thanks Tim (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I have used visual basic to create a sensor test panel. It was extremely easy and fun. I don't know why people are biased against it. (...) -- Pete Sevcik sevcik@flash.net Techno-stuff Robotics (URL) for FUN ! (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Visual Basic and RCX
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| (...) When you write an RCX program in VB, what you're really doing is constructing a VB program, that when run on the host computer will call APIs in the Spirit.ocx module to eventually emit code to the RCX. There are several ways to approach this: (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi Tim, Sorry for the delay in responding to your Visual Basic question. Unfortunately, I've been drawn away from robots for the last few weeks, attending to other matters. I've got a small library of ActiveX controls for the writing code for the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Visual Basic and RCX - PS
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| Hi Tim, The download also gives you the Visual Basic source for the SOftBricks ActiveX DLL. David Leeper (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Visual Basic and RCX
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| Hi Pete, I agree. When I first started playing with my RCX, I had planned on using NQC. I use C++ and Java at work, and I've been using C since the early 80's, so NQC seemed to be the right choice. But for the things I want to do, I discovered (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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