Any one know Visual Basic?

[DiSoRdeR]

In my Visual Basic class were making our own projects, and I have no idea what I should do. Any one have any suggestions?

[deadeye9]

Paintball Forum.

[DiSoRdeR]

Paintball Forum.

How am I supposed to make that? We have only learned how to make pictures and just got into making basic games. I was thinking of making Pacman, but do not know how to make him move.

[Will Wood]

Make.Calculator.
Make.a.paint.program.
make.a.screen.saver

or.if.your.nuts..pong.
expect.over.9k.lines

[slade]

um, i know real basic... sorta... enough to make a slideshow of empress photos . maybe you could try making a game like this . its pretty simple.

[OysterBoy]

I'm only just begginning to learn C+ / VBasic, but couldnt you (This is my pseudo-code interpretation) tag the W (or whatever key) to run process "-pacmanname- move West x 2cm" ? Obviously the actual coding would be different, but I'm sure you would need to tag your choice of key as Input, and not a process.... damn.. Is it process..? I'm such a big help..

[Jonneh]

Visual basic is like programming for clowns!

an extremely simple way of getting something to move around a window is to set up a timer object and for every tick of the timer, adjust the .top or .left attribute according to what button you're pressing.

Try making a simple vertical shooter. You can make something follow the mouse in either one, or both dimensions by finding the appropriate mouse event thing, then moving whatever you're controlling to the X and/or Y returned by the mouse event. Very simple stuff.

Good luck!

edit: This works in the old skool version of visual basic. vb.net is much more oop, so I'm not sure things are as easy.

[DiSoRdeR]

Try making a simple vertical shooter.

I was thinking about doing that, seeing as how we just learned how to But I was thinking of making pins, then I shoot a black ball up aka bowling lol

[DiSoRdeR]

Nevermind on the bowling idea, going to go for space invaders. How can I make a spaceship move with the arrow keys? I will try to find out with the book, but theres a couple thousand pages

[mikey101]

best way to check and see if a key is being pressed is using the API GetAsyncKeyState, code should look something like this:

'// Declare the API
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal KeyCode As Integer) As Long

Private Sub Timer1_timer() '// Timer sub routine - loop every 100th of a second
Dim ksRet As Long '// Define the Variable
ksRet = GetAsyncKeyState(37) '//Assign to arrow key (37 = left, 40 = down, 38 = up, 39 = right)
If ksRet = -32767 Then '//if return statement shows it's pressed then...
'//make spaceship move accordingly.
End If
end sub

woo..it's been a little while, so that may not be perfect but it's worth a shot. hopefully this helps some.

[coopy18]

best way to check and see if a key is being pressed is using the API GetAsyncKeyState, code should look something like this:

'// Declare the API
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal KeyCode As Integer) As Long

Private Sub Timer1_timer() '// Timer sub routine - loop every 100th of a second
Dim ksRet As Long '// Define the Variable
ksRet = GetAsyncKeyState(37) '//Assign to arrow key (37 = left, 40 = down, 38 = up, 39 = right)
If ksRet = -32767 Then '//if return statement shows it's pressed then...
'//make spaceship move accordingly.
End If
end sub

woo..it's been a little while, so that may not be perfect but it's worth a shot. hopefully this helps some.

If I remember correctly this doesn't capture all keystrokes (though it captures most of them) - VB6 was really wierd about that.

Disorder, I would recommend that you pick something that is interesting to you. I have been working as a software developer now for 7 years and I still learn more from messing around on projects for me than I do any other way.

Throw some subjects out here that you are interested in and maybe we can help you come up with a project. Who knows, we may even give you some pointers on writing it.

-coopy

[mikey101]

If I remember correctly this doesn't capture all keystrokes (though it captures most of them) - VB6 was really wierd about that.

true, but for a small app with minimal ammount of code to loop through it shouldn't affect it too much. Only other way i know to capture key strokes is to do a system wide hook..and that gets pretty intense.

[DiSoRdeR]

As on now we havent learned any thing hard, we learned to draw lines, circles, triangles. We drew pictures using those, and now we have learn how to make things "shoot" a ball. I would like to make a space invaders game or asteriods. Only one problem I wouldnt be able to make the alien ships or asteriod able to move around. Also the only way I know how to "shoot" is by having it come out of the mouse, is there a way to make like a little space ship shoot instead? And have its movements with the keys instead of the mouse?

[OysterBoy]

As on now we havent learned any thing hard, we learned to draw lines, circles, triangles. We drew pictures using those, and now we have learn how to make things "shoot" a ball. I would like to make a space invaders game or asteriods. Only one problem I wouldnt be able to make the alien ships or asteriod able to move around. Also the only way I know how to "shoot" is by having it come out of the mouse, is there a way to make like a little space ship shoot instead? And have its movements with the keys instead of the mouse?

What about a simple target shooting game? Have it calculate points, and hit averages (Just cause itd be cool)

[DiSoRdeR]

What about a simple target shooting game? Have it calculate points, and hit averages (Just cause itd be cool)

That would be cool, but I have no idea how to make something like that. The person necxt to me made a counter before, dont know how he did it though.