Which newsgroup / forum ....

[al jones]

I see many different questions here. Some of us are obviously *very* new
to vb and others are 'old pros'. As you've seen from my 'frustrated'
posts, I'm obviously stuck on a problem that invariably gets handed back to
me with the same solution - which I don't understand how to make work for
what I'm trying to do.

</frustration> are there other newsgroups / forums that any of you would
recommend that will take the time (have the patience) to help us *at our
<my> level* or tolerantly explain why we can't do what we're trying to do
the way we're trying to do it.

I *do* appreciate the responses that I've gotten, I just don't see how to
implement them into what I'm trying to do. thanks //al

 

[Guest]

Here is a fabulous forum for VB.NET. Its a Microsoft run website & a few
Microsoft programmers answer your questions - 5 stars:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/MessageBoard.aspx?id=8

A great forum for beginners questions is:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/forums/forum-7

There is another Microsoft run forum, but it has never ever seemed to get
off the ground. Its split into different areas like, forms, security,
controls..:

http://www.windowsforms.net

One thing about WinForms is that it is moderator edited & takes a while for
your post to go through. Once 'Nata1' (moderator) sees that you aren't
SPAMMING then you won't be moderated & your posts show up immediately.

 

[al jones]

Here is a fabulous forum for VB.NET. Its a Microsoft run website & a few
Microsoft programmers answer your questions - 5 stars:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/MessageBoard.aspx?id=8

A great forum for beginners questions is:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/forums/forum-7

There is another Microsoft run forum, but it has never ever seemed to get
off the ground. Its split into different areas like, forms, security,
controls..:

http://www.windowsforms.net

One thing about WinForms is that it is moderator edited & takes a while for
your post to go through. Once 'Nata1' (moderator) sees that you aren't
SPAMMING then you won't be moderated & your posts show up immediately.

It's the same old 'I've gotten some information fron a form and I'm trying
to print lines of text from within a <literal> mess of calculations. It's
a matter of print a line or three, perform more calcs and print a few more
lines of text. (I realilze GDI+ and draw - not print a line). With the
exception of one from Allen everything I get back is how to print a:
1) rtf document
2) block of text encoded in the program
3) big X on a page
4) pretty picture
I can see the call to draw the line of text and increment the pixel
position for the next line in all of the examples (except the x of course),
but fail to see how to extract just that portion of the sub and encapsulate
the remaining calcs / prints within the open doc / close doc structure.

The one from Allen was interesting in that goes direct to the printer (it
says) but again, it's printing a graphic and I can't convince my
BrotherPrinter that it's a HP (control codes, etc) and don't really want to
try that route.

I'm pushing 60, programmed in COBOL, (GW)BASIC(A), Fortran, etc from my
20's up till about 10 years ago when I took a break... and cannot get my
head around how to do things 'the VB way' (or is that 'the VISUAL way'??).

 

[Andy O'Neill]

It's the same old 'I've gotten some information fron a form and I'm trying
to print lines of text from within a <literal> mess of calculations. It's
a matter of print a line or three, perform more calcs and print a few more
lines of text. (I realilze GDI+ and draw - not print a line). With the
exception of one from Allen everything I get back is how to print a:
1) rtf document
2) block of text encoded in the program
3) big X on a page
4) pretty picture
I can see the call to draw the line of text and increment the pixel
position for the next line in all of the examples (except the x of
course),
but fail to see how to extract just that portion of the sub and
encapsulate
the remaining calcs / prints within the open doc / close doc structure.

The one from Allen was interesting in that goes direct to the printer (it
says) but again, it's printing a graphic and I can't convince my
BrotherPrinter that it's a HP (control codes, etc) and don't really want
to
try that route.

I'm pushing 60, programmed in COBOL, (GW)BASIC(A), Fortran, etc from my
20's up till about 10 years ago when I took a break... and cannot get my
head around how to do things 'the VB way' (or is that 'the VISUAL way'??).

It's the object orientated way mate.
Can't say as I've ever tried to do what you're doing so I don't have
anything ready to roll.

In DotNet everything is an object.
Even what you might think of as a variable.
So you declare something. stick a value in it and can convert it using
methods of that variable.
whatever.tostring
That's of weird if you think in cobol terms.

What you're looking for is some sort of file object.
You got to open it, chances are open is some sort of method.
You'll then use methods of this to bung data into the file.

All output I ever did to a printer was from crystal reports.
Seeing as that handles the actual writing to the printer that bit 's easy.
You could write the data to a table, base a report on that table and it'd do
the biz.
Bit long winded though.
Unless - and this is why I mention it - you write the guff away to a
database anyhow.
In which case a form write the data away and a crystal report prints it
starts to look a lot more logical.

Otherwise I think I'd write the stuff to a flat file.
Then chuck the flat file at the printer, and I guess you already have some
info on how to do that.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Al,

I think that it is the way you ask your question that makes it almost
impossible for most of us to answer them.

You do them as far as I have seen them in the way of. "I have done this, and
that, unfortunatly I cannot succeed".

And than we see some code we cannot go in either direction because probably
most of us don't understand it (anymore)..

When you ask, I want to achieve this or that, than it becomes suddenly much
more easier to answer you, and than it is as well not important if you are a
beginner or a pro. Mostly it is even posibly to give you a link with
samples.

I hope this gives some ideas for you.

Cor