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Wrote my first program in 1970 using punch cards.Been using search since the mid 80'sthe Vax/VMS search.Created my own VB text & photo searchin 1999. It has evolved to a lot more.
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 | There are no tuff solutions if you can flowchart. I was having problems getting the searches hi-lite and line wrap to work properly. So I did a flowchart and fixed most of the bugs. http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict01.jpg http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict02.jpg Flowcharting well saved my bacon a number of times...  |
 | I have 3147 videos on youtube and seldom watch them. If they aren't on the first page or two. But that is going to change. Right now I'm going through all my youtube videos. Putting the URL along with the description into a plain text file. My app can randomly …  |
 | Don't worry about spamming. Most forums are all about the registrations. If you do anything that may mess with the registrations then you get banned. A lot of the really smart people don't like it when the common man disagrees. Spam away...  |
 | Re: Code Efficiency Don't worry about efficiency.. It used to matter when computers were run 24/7 Evenings were used for backups and system upgrades. Most computers use a fraction of their resources. Anything that requests user interaction could be as slow as molasses and still be blindingly fast.  |
| | A good CMS system should: Keep you in touch with your data -- random sampling of your Video Audio Pictures and Text Help you identify corrupt and duplicate data.. It's there believe me. Make sharing your info easy. Extract specific data files and elements Fast forward / slow motion / … |
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| | http://www.coderanch.com/t/517172/md/Bestest-program You need to output the data after each read. Modified or original. You are working on a very important app. Years ago a friend said if he were to develop a new system all the data would be TEXT. That makes it easy to edit with a simple editor. … |
| | How I would catalog police video. Play it fast forward and record that (just like movie pirates do) then post the results on the net. 4 hours of video down to 15 minutes. After that do a complete archive where the video is shown at fast forward or slow motion … |
| | Hi all My old old vb5 app does everything I want as far as mpg video goes. Random video and play a random segment. Fast forward and reverse. random groupings of large font, video segments and or pictures and audio I need the code to provide me with the file … |
| | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSAhQ_Fqjg at the 2 minute mark of this 3 minute video they start heckling me for my negative talk about the police. Less than a week before there was a front page story about cowboy cops in osoyoos. http://www.theprovince.com/news/iteam/Have+cowboy+cops+turned+Osoyoos+enforcement+into+rodeo/10318475/story.html These guys and girls are giving cowboys a bad name. |
| | Do you use it. I do. All the time. My main program is made to be killed and restarted lots. With the short-cut link in the upper right I can start and stop the prog with little movement. When you use just one app for everything. It should reside at … |
| | I haven't used this type of function since 1975 and a keypunch verify system. Now I want to navigate between mini video segments. My app can play mini slices of a video and if a directional key is entered I want it to switch to another video segment or back …  |
| | Re: Key press event I'd like to implement a "enter any key to continue" in my VB5.0 application. The last time I needed that capability was a keypunch verify system in 1976. Now I want to be able to navigate between video segments by entering < or > etc.  |
| | Lately I have been using the program name to control the program execution. If the name has "random" in it then random. If it has "mix" in it then it plays / displays a mix of text and video - pictures - audio. The 3 program prompts are set based … |
 | Here is a program that I have written over 500 times. This is a far better starter program than any old "hello World" example. A practical program that can be easily extended in any language. I have done over 50 cable and telephone billing system conversions. This program does a …  |
 | Re: AVI Player My SSDS does play avi. It just does Mpeg better. At the time avi didn't have the ability to start and stop at various points in the video. Shoot lots of video and keep an eye on the politicos. What ever format. Good luck |
| | My app can do that.. it goes through the directory and lists everything you want or just the file type you select. to a text file. in the catalog mode with long file names... It controls video playback using long file names. Start point, speed, duration and more again and … |
 | If it doesn't have a random option then it is 2nd class. |
| | It wouldn't be difficult to do with Spectate Swamp Desktop Search SSDS. I do it all the time. When I want to display some random large font delayed print questions. The only change that would be required would be to modify the search string element for that background job. Be …  |
| | Re: Folder Search [QUOTE=SCBWV;1104644]Efficient search routine using Windows API or built-in Visual Basic functions - [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185476[/url][/QUOTE] My VB5 Desktop search needed to auto-catalogue for pictures and music. To do that I needed to look at all the folders on a drive. As a spin of of that function I created a Directory.txt output … |
| | On another forum. This guy warns me to not bump a thread. [url]http://www.dropshots.com/spectateswamp#date/2010-01-14/06:06:14[/url] Then he makes his post disappear. Then I get banned. A couple other of my fav threads had him as the final respondant. Does he bully others there. Good thing I do screen captures of my posts … |
| | How will the masses make use of the huge disk drives? People who do lots of useless video like myself may come close to filling these monstrocities. Business users with their spreadsheets, accounting packages, contact lists, presentations, software packages and copies there of won't approach these limits. The less tech …  |
| | I have an open source desktop search. Instead of indexed search. It does an append operation putting all the cls frm txt htm and other text format data into 1 huge file. Then search that file without any directory overhead. The file names seperates the data in the big file. … |
| | In 5 billion years has anything evolved to live in the sky. Land and sea have been crammed with life since the start! [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3NpSe8Vzw[/url] |
| | A few years back while scouring a river bank for dino bones. I came across a cube of sandstone 2 ft by 3 ft by 1 1/2 ft. Anyway. I gave it a hit with my hammer and split it in two. Being in the muck the stone only partly …  |
| | Reason #1 for editing video. There are 30,000+ laws in my province. You won't be videoing long before you catch someone, doing something illegal. Editing those out can save a lot of hassle. The laws make almost everything illegal; from seat-belts to rolling stops. Resulting in some very good video, …  |
| | The next most important apps are: (2) My Video Camera Software & My VB5.0 Search compiler, (3) Net Browser, (4) Paint & NotePad, (5) Operating Systems, (6) PrintKey 2000, (7) games,,, ----------------- Individual preferences may change the above order. The OS will seldom be in #1st place. With a good … |
 | They don't seem to what a desktop search showdown. check: [url]http://channel9.msdn.com/showuserthreads.aspx?userid=31672[/url] |
| | [QUOTE=Naveen]hi guys. am new to VB. so dont know too many things. i am making a multimedia player and i have completed the brass tacks. i have a couple of qns for features that i wanna put in (First off good luck. I wrote a VB MultiMedia Player) 1. how … |
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