Software to Program With Graphics
Software to Program With Graphics
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Hello, I'm working on making a simple program to perform Power System Analysis. This will be for my personal use. I have the calculations on Excel and have some Macros on Visual Basic. I would like to create graphics for the elements (i.e. Cables, Loads, Transformers) and assign/adjust the values of those elements when click on the element and a window with the properties will open. I'm not too familiar with the latest on programming languages. What are the differences between Visual Basic, the Visual Basic .NET or Visual C++?. Which of this programs should help me to make my program?. I would like to run it on windows.





RE: Software to Program With Graphics
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Billy has strongly encouraged everyone to adopt the ".NET initiative", but he has not actually revealed what it is. Some folks insist that it's a nefarious scheme to eventually ensure that your data is stored exclusively on Microsoft owned servers, and cannot be accessed except via Microsoft software for which you'll have to pay an annual usage/access fee, to Microsoft. Some people use C++ and like it. For me, C and its offspring serve as uncontrollable bug generators. Your mileage may vary.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Good Luck,
Greg Hansen
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Thanks.
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TTFN
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It is the Beta edition but adequate for small programs. Alternatively send MS £3 (or whatever the equivalent is in the US) and they'll send you the disk. If you want to try C# or C++, you can also get the beta editions from the same site.
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I have same idea that you have. And I know a bit of VB6 but I am not able to program it. I read a couple of VB books and sample programmes but so far no clue.
How is your 'project' so far?
Appreciate it if you can share your experience.
Or anybody has any suggestion? Any Inputs?Any clue?
Regards
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Programmed with Delphi from Borland
RE: Software to Program With Graphics
Including database design (Borlands Interbase), autocad drawings viewers, interaction with word and excel, PDF writing, a two plane and single plane balancing calculator, and many more. Currently I am looking to use flash animations to include in one of my apps.
I was caught in the transition phase from mainframe to personal computers and started programming with FORTRAN. Since Fortran was not available on PC's I switched to Turbo pascal which have a similar structure.
The Delphi, VB and C++ books are written for programmers, not engineers.
On the other hand, matrix calculation, advanced math etc.. have tons of code written in Fortran.
Ask a programmer about a Newton-Raphson iteration or complex numbers, he probably will not know what you are talking about.
Thus I managed translate fortran code to pascal "Delphi" and I never had the problem finding scientific code snippets in technical books.
I know some top of the line industrial products that make use of Delpi, Interbase, Borland C++, all products from Borland.
Example: Matrikon - process interfase
Commtest Ascent - Vibration Analyzing Software used together with a VB3000 vibration analyzer.
Best regards.