Re: free and accessible vb compiler?

  • From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:08:02 -0500

The main problem with java for this is that the command line in Windows requires that you press enter before it will send the program anything, so hitting an arrow key to move around a game board cannot happen, unless I missed something in the responses. I appreciate the advice and seewhat you are saying; this just seems to not be possible in Java unless I make a gui and I have no clue how to do that. I got some code online for making one but it froze EdSharp completely when I tried to compile and the java cmd line compiler gave me errors that did not exist, like no return type for main (it was void just as it should have been) and odd characters being in the file that were not actually there, like \160. 


Have a great day,
Alex


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:43:36 -0300
Subject: Re: free and accessible vb compiler?



Hello Alex,
You can do it in java, indeed ... you asked about key hooks and 
you
got a response. Java can also manage sounds, you just need to 
research
it. Programmers are always trying to do what nobody already did, 
so
they are always researching and trying things. If programmers 
did what

was already there then they would not be needed because what have
already been done is done. So far, the main required hability of 
a
programmer is not its techniccal aspect, because one can always 
learn
a new language and such. The main required hability is its 
hability of
researching and figuring out a way of doing what is needed to be 
done.
So far, if you need to do it in java, go and do it in java 
because
it's what you have to do. And java, as a advansed language it 
is, will
certainly allow a relatively easy project like your game to be 
done

with no problems.  I think probably if you're going to work with
programming one day you will have a task and you won't be allowed 
to
say a, it can't be done using this language, so I will switch to 
that

other I have heard is good for doing this.
You can get hungry with me and others here for giving you these
advices, and personally if you don't like them you just drop me a
letter and I am not gonna follow with them, but again the right 
way to
go may be not as easy and the easier way to go can make your 
learning

almost unusefull if you don't follow and acomplish your tasks.
hth
Marlon



2008/2/25, Valiant (on laptop) <valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

as far as I know yes indeed they will.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: free and accessible vb compiler?
Will the express edition still allow me to make programs that 
can

play sounds and use kbd input?



Have a great day,
Alex



----- Original Message -----
From: "Valiant \(on laptop\)" <valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:45:21 -0500
Subject: Re: free and accessible vb compiler?



Hi.
I never did manage to get it to work, but vb express 2007 or

which ever the

newest one is is free from microsoft.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:53 PM
Subject: free and accessible vb compiler?




Hi all,
As I cannot do what I want for my battleship game using java I

am thinking

of doing the java part to satisfy the requirements for my

computer science

class but furthering the game by switching to vb.  I have heard

that vb is

the best language for playing sounds, using keyboard input, and

all that.

Is there a free and accessible vb compiler? It could even be

command line,

like the java compiler from Sun.



Have a great day,
Alex
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