Lack of Updates
By Ravenhawk | October 15, 2007
I must apologize for the lack of updates lately, been busy with class, work, and generally being a lazy ass. However, I should be getting my arse back in gear soon and reverting back to at least a weekly update. (Aiming for the weekend times, but, you know, I float around generally)
Now that I’ve got a new job in the university records center helping to reprogram their database, I should be posting some more things about the wonderful Horrors of Visual Basic (Haven’t had any of those post in about six months) and the greatness of SQL programming. Besides this, I have a few games that I’ve been jamming out to like crazy that hopefully you’ll get to hear about.
In other news, I’ll give a million kudos points to anyone who can make up a good slogan for me. I suck and the slogan game and keep getting game overs whenever I try to play it. ’tis quite sad.
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Accursed student versions
By Ravenhawk | December 10, 2006
Apparrently the “Working Model Addition” of Microsoft Visual Basic can’t make executable files..
So you’ll have to wait a little longer for a copy of my program.
How do they expect you to properly learn all the aspects of programming if the “student version” can’t make exe files?
So annoying..
Anyway, I might look into getting microsoft studio from a friend. It’s far too expensive of a program to purchase on my salary (or lack-thereof) though…
Tags: Uncategorized, Students, Visual Basic
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Hurdle cleared, onto the finish line
By Ravenhawk | December 6, 2006
Tada: My button works, the user can now only select a single score to apply to each stat. Now all that remains for my Visual Basic project is to finish the print page and to make myself a cool logo. Behold the mighty code that stumped me for weeks:
‘Set score from label to corresponding stat in the dropdown menu.
‘Only one of each dropdown allowed
Dim intcount As Integer, intnum As Integer, intcounter As Integer, intErr As Integer
Dim intindex As Integer, intresponse As Integer, intnumber As Integer
‘intcount = menus intnum = options
If blnScores = True Then
For intcount = 0 To 5
intindex = cbostat(intcount).ListIndex
For intnum = 0 To 5
If cbostat(intnum).Index cbostat(intcount).Index Then
If cbostat(intnum).ListIndex = intindex Then
intresponse = MsgBox(”Please select only One option”, vbOKOnly, “Character Generator”)
End If
End If
Next intnum
Next intcount
‘If not error was found, apply stats
If intresponse = vbOK Then
For intcount = 0 To 5 Step 1
cbostat(intcount).Text = “Select stat”
Next intcount
Else
For intcounter = 0 To 5
Select Case cbostat(intcounter).ListIndex
Case 0
intStr = intstat(intcounter)
Case 1
intDex = intstat(intcounter)
Case 2
intInt = intstat(intcounter)
Case 3
intCon = intstat(intcounter)
Case 4
intWis = intstat(intcounter)
Case 5
intCha = intstat(intcounter)
Case Else
intErr = MsgBox(”Invalid Statistic Selection”, vbOKOnly, “Character Generator”)
End Select
Next intcounter
blnStats = True
For intnumber = 0 To 5
Select Case intstat(intnumber)
Case 2 To 3
intmod(intnumber) = -4
Case 4 To 5
intmod(intnumber) = -3
Case 6 To 7
intmod(intnumber) = -2
Case 8 To 9
intmod(intnumber) = -1
Case 10 To 11
intmod(intnumber) = 0
Case 12 To 13
intmod(intnumber) = 1
Case 14 To 15
intmod(intnumber) = 2
Case 16 To 17
intmod(intnumber) = 3
Case 18 To 19
intmod(intnumber) = 4
Case 20 To 21
intmod(intnumber) = 5
End Select
Next intnumber
End If
Else
intErr = MsgBox(”Complete all previous steps before moving on.”)
End If
Until Next time, Comrades.
Tags: Programming, Visual Basic
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Cram time
By Ravenhawk | December 3, 2006
Ah, how time flies. I totally spaced on posting yesterday.
Well, actually I totally spaced yesterday afternoon, in the morning, I remembered to post. However once I got home from the radio show, I was knuckling down into my final project for Visual Basic, which I shall be presenting tomorrow.
I’m creating a Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 character generator. Not amazingly difficult, but complicated enough. The problem I’m currently running into stems from my interface choices. I have the player roll up their dice rolls using a button, then they select what stat to apply it to using a dropdown box. (Combo box.. whatever) My problem is making sure they don’t select the same option in more than one box.
Right now I’m messing around with some nested For Loops.
Once the alpha is done (i.e. the thing I’m turning in for the class, which enables you to roll 1st level characters) I’ll upload it somewhere. That should happen by the end of the week, as I must turn it in on friday. So I’ll post it Saturday.
In other news, my brother got his laptop back and the house is once again filled with the music of Harvest Moon. Ah, the wonders of emulation.
If I didn’t love the game so much, it’d be driving me nuts.
Until next time, Comrades
Tags: Programming, Visual Basic
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