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> Antlr4BuildTasks library couldn't automatically download Java.
It would be nice if more effort was put into avoiding large dependencies, like a java runtime for a .net product. Edit: It's not just the size of the dependency, it's the complexity this adds to the deployment and development.
It's an awesomely inspirational vision, but within 2 minutes of trying it out I found it's lacking a lot of little features (at least on the web build)... e.g: Ampersands in button labels don't create an accelerator (e.g. &Go does not underline the G). In true VB6 you could plop down a Label control and just start typing to change it's contents. Here you have to focus on the input field first (and you can't just clic…
This is a feature of the Windows common controls, not anything VB specific, so perhaps why it was missed.
How is this legal?
It's an awesomely inspirational vision, but within 2 minutes of trying it out I found it's lacking a lot of little features (at least on the web build)... e.g: Ampersands in button labels don't create an accelerator (e.g. &Go does not underline the G). In true VB6 you could plop down a Label control and just start typing to change it's contents. Here you have to focus on the input field first (and you can't just clic…
> Ampersands in button labels don't create an accelerator This is a feature of the Windows common controls, not anything VB specific, so perhaps why it was missed.
As a kid I spent summers working in the schools IT department in order to save up to buy VB6 (with a staff discount). This was not cheap back in the day!
Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits. It looks and works so intuitively.
This is fairly similar to how Interface Builder in Xcode works for macOS and iOS apps. Like others have said, it works well until you need to support different screen sizes, layouts, animations, touch interaction, etc.
> This is fairly similar to how Interface Builder in Xcode works for macOS and iOS apps.
Totally agree with your second point and I wish Microsoft would have addressed that. Maybe they have. The last time I messed with their stuff I was writing XAML.
Anyone know if they brought RAD back?
Edit: apparently they had/have layout managers.
I appreciate the amount of work that might have gone into this, but a small annoyance: > Antlr4BuildTasks library couldn't automatically download Java. It would be nice if more effort was put into avoiding large dependencies, like a java runtime for a .net product. Edit: It's not just the size of the dependency, it's the complexity this adds to the deployment and development.
(these dependencies are for building the project, not for deploying it)
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> Ampersands in button labels don't create an accelerator This is a feature of the Windows common controls, not anything VB specific, so perhaps why it was missed.
Nonetheless, a critical part of mimicking the VB6 developer experience.
How I missed the frame component in modern day applications. They all seem to think that a bold heading and some extra whitespace at the end is sufficient to group things together.
HTML has a fieldset that looks like that. But too many CSS frameworks wreck it. I actually like the look. To prove it to yourself, place the following in a empty HTML file and see how it renders. Frame1 HTML CSS JavaScript
Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…