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[Antony]

Tried it just now . . . same problem occurs.

It was due to my stupidness. I built it for Development (Debug), not for releasing
See that's why.

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[Don_HH2K]

Cool!

Does your calculator work?

Yes, it works. It's a complete rewrite using the same interface as your calculator. With respect to you as the original designer in the About dialog, of course.

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[Andrew T.]

What exactly is .NET Framework? Is it something like a Visual Basic runtime?

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[Don_HH2K]

What exactly is .NET Framework? Is it something like a Visual Basic runtime?

.NET Framework is a collection of components distributed across programming languages. It is intended to simplify dynamic applications that can be run under multiple platforms that support the .NET environment. This includes IIS's ASP.NET, Windows CE .NET, and any version of Windows that supports .NET. It gets interesting when you see a .NET application running off a web server using ASP.NET, or when you can easily run a .NET application on a handheld without porting the code to a different language.

Then there's the whole .NET initiative, where you'd see the .NET Framework, .NET Server (aka Windows Server 2003), and .NET Passport all working together to provide a user with a dynamic application that downloads personalized content off the Web.

Visual BASIC 6 and Visual BASIC .NET are not compatible with each other, although Visual Studio 2005 has a built-in project converter to convert most VB6 code to VB.NET.

So, yes, it is a Visual BASIC runtime, but it's also a runtime for numerous other languages like C++, C#, J#, etc... I would be building for an earlier version of the Framework than v2.0 Beta, but unfortunately Visual Studio 2005 does not yet have the ability to target earlier versions of the Framework as 2003 did. Of course, if anybody has a VB6 compiler, I can post the source to a VB6 version.

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[Pu7o]

I have Visual Basic 6, so if you want to, you can post the sources to a vb6 version and i'll compile it.

By the way, you're not making this in Microsoft Office, are you? If you are, you should check out the free Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition (available here). It doesn't allow you to compile the programs either, but at least it gives you access to the full Visual Basic programming language, rather than the small subset that Microsoft Office has).

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[Pu7o]

Well there's no need for you to send the vb6 sources, i've done it myself. Get it here.

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[Pu7o]

And there's a Linux/GTK2 version here

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[Antony]

Screenshot of Pu7o's Cheap Calculator:

Windows version:




Linux GTK2 version:

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[Don_HH2K]

I can create backports to VB6 in Office. I make the programs with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I've heard of compilers for Office's VB, but I've never tried them. Office's VB6 provides enough of VB for me to create a port, as long as somebody else imports the source code without a project file.

Here's what'd be handy... an XUL port (who knows, maybe I will work one an XUL version, and maybe an XAML version for those with the Avalon runtime).

That isn't the only VB programming I've done, BTW. I also have programs in VB.NET to estimate the cost of a self-built computer, convert various domestic and Metric units, and a currently unpublished screensaver that displays HH-related news via RSS.

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[Antony]

That isn't the only VB programming I've done, BTW. I also have programs in VB.NET to estimate the cost of a self-built computer, convert various domestic and Metric units, and a currently unpublished screensaver that displays HH-related news via RSS.

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[Don_HH2K]

I have no idea how you got that, because it worked fine for Softpedia and a few people that told me about their experience with it.

Is that the source archive? I bet it has to do with the fact that the TAR file is an exact dump of part of an NTFS volume instead of something that OS X can read.

EDIT -> Yes, this is the problem. It fails in a similar manner with the TAR command-line tool on Windows 98, but works fine in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, with the same tool.

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[Antony]

CheapCalculator 0.2 is out!

It's ugly, but it fixes a stupid bug (division did not work).

[img=left]http://moz.sillydog.org/archives/pic/MacOSX_Universal_35px.gif[/img] I set it to Universal Binary, since I don't have an Intel based Mac I can't verify if it will run correctly on Intel based Mac.

download CheapCalculator 0.2

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[Pu7o]

The About window says "Version 1.0". And it works fine on my Intel Mac OS X.

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[Don_HH2K]

If anyone wants to post a screenshot of the interface and tell me what operations it supports, then I'd be more than happy to port it.

Or, an idea for an interface (and you'll know where I stole this from) . . .

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[Pu7o]

Here's a screenshot of CheapCalculator 0.2

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