Posts by ObSys

Oh ok. I think this entire process may be a little too complex for me because i'm more of a software geek rather than a hardware geek. I may take it to a computer repair shop and ask if they think it's worth trying to repair.

Thank you rubberman for your responses...they have been very helpful. Upvote :)

Personally I would learn some java as you can write a .jar file and import it directly into a web page to run. It gives you good functionality and its not too hard to pick up. Definately would recomment getting some books on java though because when you first start it looks mental

Depending on how complex the site is, it may be worth just learning basic HTML and CSS. I learnt this in an afternoon and the next day managed to program a basic website. It's not that difficult.

If its more complex then its probably easier to find some video tutorials on youtube or somewhere on how to do various operations in Dreamweaver. The internet is full of answers....just take a look

I personally think that socialogical systems like communism and socialism would work very well....but only in a perfect society. This is where their fundamental floor lies. The fact that it's human nature to want, means that any full implementation of these systems will fail. Saying that, many democracies such as ours here in the UK take elements from these systems such as taxes....these are a form of socialism just without taking 100% of your income.

It all depends how advanced your knowledge of computers is....it's not all about the programming language, to be able to program well you need to understand what the computer is doing with the data.

For an real beginner, I would recommend going to your local book store/amazon and finding a few books about programming in your chosen language. Once you have the basics you can then start developing projects and furthering your knowledge with practice.

If your already at that point then have a look at some courses either online or evening courses just to develop your understanding further.

I have found that from 2 books and the internet I can program fairly easily. Your at an advantage because of your higher level of education and mathematical brain.

Hope this helps

You might want to research using C# for game design.

I'm only using VB.NET as a proof of concept, just so that I am able to understand how to go about writing this game. Once that has been done I will be rewriting it in java.

I only want to know if theres an efficient way to draw items to the screen.

So are you basically creating an attendance register?

Right there are 2 ways of doing this.

The first way is to use two If statements as follows:

        If a >= 0 Then
            If a <= 100 Then
                'do something
            End If
        End If

The other method which uses fewer lines of code is to include an AND statement:

        If a >= 0 And a <= 100 Then
            'do something
        End If

Hope this helps

Shiinko if your new to web development, I would recommend reading about liquid layouts. A key feature for most web pages and it will help you with positioning problems etc.

Well basically i'm looking to make a basic game engine as a test and then rewrite in Java or something once i've learnt it.

It's just going to be a simplistic mario style 2D interface so it will have a static background image, a foreground layer made up of various different blocks to walk along etc and finally a sprite which moves around the screen.

Was just wondering if there's a cheap way to render all these images to the screen.

Ok i'm not going to do it for you but you will need to know about these things.

Streamwriter
Streamreader
TimeOfDay.Now.DayOfYear (this will give you a number such as 255 which is the 255th day of the year)

So all you have to do is write this number to a file when the project is downloaded and then on each load of the project, check if currentDay >= 255+30

Simples. Hope this helps

Try removing the parenthese () from each "Next" statement.

I've already left it in rice for a couple of days. I was thinking about possibly disassembling the phone and cleaning it with some sort of alchohol cleaner or something similar. Do you think this might work?

On holiday, I foolishly forgot that my Iphone 4 was in my pocket and went swimming with it in the hotel pool. I was in the water for about 30 minutes before I realised. When I realised, I left it to dry (it was between 30 and 35 degrees in the day so it should've dried quite well). Despite this, and not to my suprise, the phone will not turn on.

I was wondering if anyone knows whether this kind of damage can be fixed and if the phone can be salvaged. Would also like to know what parts of the phone are most likely damaged beyond repair etc.

Thanks

I guess it depends what company you work for and what your position is. For instance if you were working for a government security company such as Mi5 or the FBI then it should come as no suprise that they are tracking you. If, however, you are working for a standard company and you have a standard role within that company, then they shouldn't have reason to track you. From what I understand, without stipulating something like this in the job contract, it is illegal for them to track you. Would be interesting to see if they were though. :)

It would probably be easier to write a file on the users computer which stores the information about the first time the software was run. Then on each loadup, check this file to see if 30 days have passed. If they have then lock the program. Not too hard to write

beauty -> ugly

1. Be the first person on a planet other than earth
2. Know how the universe started
3. I want a nice new road bike (Pinarello Dogma 2 with Di2 Dura-ace groupset, Zipp 404 wheels and an o-symmetric crankset....if anyone is feeling generous)

It looks to me like your using Microsoft Access and are refering to a form in the context of Access which is VBscript (similar to vb6) not VB.NET. If im right you might want to try either the "Database" forum or the "Visual Basic 4/5/6" forum.

You need to let us know what the problem is and possibly post your code here in order to obtain help

Ok so basically I want to know how I can paint multiple items to the screen without using all of my laptop CPU power.

I was thinking that it may be possible to arrange the items as a bitmap and then paint that bitmap to the screen but im not entirely sure how to go about doing this so would value any help that can be given.

Thanks in advance for your replies

Reverend Jim, I was not refering to your comment. I was talking about deceptikon, I am sorry, I should have made that more clear.

As for deceptikon, the way you write responses comes across rude and arrogant. I personally have no problem with you but the fact that you were so blunt with someone who is obviously new to IT annoys me as everyone has to start somewhere. So stop getting your knickers in a twist.

Hate to tell you this guys, but this is a forum set up to help people learn to program. It doesn't matter if they are still on the basics, you should still help....and if you don't want to help then don't reply!!

fRodzet, to add numbers you just have to create a "FOR" loop as follows

For i = 1 to 100
    combobox1.items.add(i)
Next

Basically, this starts with i=1, it then adds the value of i (in this case 1) to the combobox. It then loops round and makes i=2, then adds i to the combobox...and so on and so on.

You dont want the "Dim i as integer = 0" before it because it just adds extra processing.

You need to create a network connection between the two clients (you and your friend). The most commonly way to do this in VB.NET is to use a communication protocol called TCP. Have a search for "VB.NET TCP NETWORKING" and see what it throws up.

Try typing in "msconfig" to the Start bar's search. It should open a small window. Click on the startup tab. This has all the programs that load when you turn your computer on. If you find the applications such as "facebook messenger" etc and uncheck them, they will not load up until you decide you need them. This will save some idle RAM usage.

I have a HP laptop and I noticed the same thing. Try using headphones, if they work then the headphone socket is loose which prevents the speakers from working. This can usually be solved by giving the socket a little push inwards either with a finger or a headphone jack.

I would say you need to ensure that you understand how to code rather than an actual language. Once you have the programming principals nailed, its just a matter or implementing them on a different language. Personally, I would recommend C as most modern languages are derived in some way from C so you will be able to pick up different languages up much faster afterwards.

Depends on what you want to do in the near future. You can learn all of these technologies at any point in your career, however you have to think about what you want to do next, it networks then do cisco, databases then oracle and if you want to become a developer then go for .NET

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful - Eric Thomas

Don't know if this will work for you but you could try creating a loop after the program has logged in which checks to see if 2 seconds has passed using the timeofday.second function. Once you log in, the current second is set. You then check this variable to see if its greater than/equal to the variable + 2 seconds.

Try this

    Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyDown
        'KeyDown switch

        Select Case e.KeyCode

            Case Keys.Enter

                'Is the textbox not null
                If TextBox1.Text <> Nothing Then

                    'EXECUTE INSTRUCTIONS

                End If

        End Select

    End Sub

If there's anything you want clarified just post a reply.

Im confused. Is the thumbnail a picture of your program or is that what you want to achieve?

Also are you using a random integer generator to create the values?

try this

public sub ListFiles()

'DIR for folder
'add each file to ListBox control

For each file as string in IO.directory.getfiles(Folder Path)
	Listbox.items.Add(file)
next

End Sub

What about building a high speed database System? Or a high speed data backup system? Used a lot in industry