What Do You People Use?

I'm fairly new to the scnene, and though interested in creating some programs, haven't yet got a great grasp of the whole visual basic thing. However, one thing i did notice (at least in visual basic 6) is that there seems to be very little possibilities as far as creating a browser based on the modern XP style explorer.

If i were wanting create such an app such as explorer replacement (maybe emulating finder), which i am, either i have missed any features allowing this in Visual Basic, or i am looking in the wrong direction, and should be looking to another app for creating such programs.

Any help would be great, though i would be very pleased if any of you who have already been making your own browsing apps (ie felix8 etc.) would be able to help on which utilities/apps would be best.

#146504

My advice: Go for Delphi, if you want, you can use my AvePreview2 code as a base for your Delphi-projects.

#146565

Originally posted by AndreasV@Apr 18 2004, 09:57 PM

My advice: Go for Delphi, if you want, you can use my AvePreview2 code as a base for your Delphi-projects.

wow, that's really nice of you Ave :bye: always helping

#146567

Yeah I reccomend Delphi too for finders and things, it has a nice built in shelllistviewer.

But, if you havent worked your way through VB it may seem a little complex?

~alilm

#146912

Ok, thanks for this, and if i do get hte program, i might take a look at ur code, so thanks for that to. Is it a fairly visual based program, or is it more script based? but i guess i will keep working through visual basic anyhow.

#147012

Not only that, but Delphi is based on the ultimate "learning language" - Pascal, and therefore inherits quite a slice of Pascal's rather intuitive nature

Look, Ave, I'm encouraging use of Delphi

#147088

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Apr 19 2004, 11:56 PM

Not only that, but Delphi is based on the ultimate "learning language" - Pascal, and therefore inherits quite a slice of Pascal's rather intuitive nature

Look, Ave, I'm encouraging use of Delphi 

what`s the catch?

#147123

Originally posted by Unbeliever@Apr 19 2004, 08:42 PM

what`s the catch?  

I'd say there's a punchline somewhere, but Steve isn't funny.

My Plug (keeping in mind most of these guys are are better programmers):

I like Python. It's a wonderful language with very clean syntax. It creates extremely readable code, but is still a very powerful (and well designed) language. You also have a wide variety of GUI Toolkit choices available, most completely cross platform. I am using GTK right now.

Python is also free/open source, so you don't need to pay for a runtime/compiler. Just go to http://python.org and try it out. There's a bunch of tutorials there, so no commitment.

Python was also inspired by Pascal, along with other "teaching" languages like Modula.

#147141

Well, I saw you know VB, so I would go for VB.NET, it's rather powerfull

Or else, if you are begining, go for C#

#148039

I have no intention of starting a war, but all of the .NET apps are just overly-bloated M$ crap that costs too much and doesn't work well enough ^^;. Poor Delphi 8 (.NET)...

#150612

Originally posted by chiklit@Apr 26 2004, 06:02 AM

I have no intention of starting a war, but all of the .NET apps are just overly-bloated M$ crap that costs too much and doesn't work well enough ^^;. Poor Delphi 8 (.NET)...

If you have no intention of starting a war, why d'you post such obvious flamebait?

You obviously haven't a clue about .Net, otherwise you wouldn't be saying that.

I've had this argument far too many times to bother having it again.

#150623

Are there any good places on the internet to read a little about Delphi? A have been thinking about starting to program for a long time now, but i havent got the money to buy a book

EDIT: i found this place one minuite after posting

#150763

PSC has a section for Delphi:

http://pscode.com/vb/default.asp?lngWId=7

For those of you who haven't heard of PlanetSourceCode, it's a HUGE community that people submit code (sometimes in packages) as tutorials. They also have an "Ask A Pro" section. Registration is free.

They have most languages, but not Python yet <_< .

#150770

A question to the people who know Delphi here: Are there any good books on the market? There are like thousands of them, but I only want one

Any recommendations?

#154838

For source code, the best place to go is sourceforge.net. It's the largest open source software repository out there. There's code for most languages.

For example:

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_l...hp?form_cat=265

There's over 1400 projects written in Delphi.

#154900

Wow! Thanx mate

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