What interesting program have you written before?

[CBasicNet]

Come in here to tell us what interesting applications you have written before.

It must be something done in your own free time, not related to your work.

Come contribute.

I'm new to windows programming, so I have nothing as yet to show.

[Simon666]

Originally posted by CBasicNet
Come in here to tell us what interesting applications you have written before.

It must be something done in your own free time, not related to your work.

Come contribute.

I'm new to windows programming, so I have nothing as yet to show.
Well, I'll start. My color coding program is one. Download it by clicking in my signature. I think anoher one will follow. Do you have the source of your screensaver program available?

[CBasicNet]

I have. I can give it to you but I do not know how to use Winzip;I do not know how to include directories inside the zip file.

Maybe you can teach me how to use winzip first.:D

[Simon666]

Originally posted by CBasicNet
I have. I can give it to you but I do not know how to use Winzip;I do not know how to include directories inside the zip file.

Maybe you can teach me how to use winzip first.:D
You can see checkboxes in the main dialog window. The first check box is called "Include subfolders". Check this one and proceed.

[Amn]

I had a friend who used a free pirated shared Internet connection. We lived in a neighbourhood where Internet was still new and asked for. But apart from telephone bill it didn't cost anything. Yet this friend of mine wouldn't share the details on how to login with the rest of us, lone internet wolfs ;) So what i did, is I made a rotating bilinear filtered green sphere effect on the screen, and also incorporated a trojan into it. He ran it, trojanb worked - extracted some passwords and had written it on an already prepared floopy disk. And Voila! - we thought we have it covered, but oopsie - passwords were written protected and machine dependent. So basically all job was in vain.

I felt like the guy from "Hackers" though ;)
But i never told that friend i did it, and i don't do this kind of stuff to my friends anymore, i was just a stupid kid ;)

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Does your friend by any chance read this forum?;)

[Amn]

Fat chance he ever would ;)

[aio]

Back in the late 80's when the ratio of person:computer in our office was approximately 5:1, I was fortunate to be among the first to have a computer. The problem however was, there are too many borrowers. Most of these borrowers used the computer on overtime -- past 5PM or Saturdays (and sometimes Sundays). On weekends, It's either I have to report just to open the computer or give the borrower my password and just change it later.

Later, I created a password login that change the password every hour & every day. It was just written in QuickBasic and activated by Autoexec.bat. The clue as to what the password is, is in the Date and Time displayed by the computer during login.

A few months later, I earned a few bucks out of that program (a few individuals paid me for the same type of login program) -- I was able to complete my music room:). I was just not fortunate to break the million bucks barrier. :(

But for someone who is still learning the rudiments of programming (I was just less than a year on programming at that time), that was pretty exciting and fulfilling.

[Cimperiali]

It must be something done in your own free time, not related to your work

Now, about doing app in free time, I use to do it quite every day.
Matter is: they are mostly related to job. Nut there are a copule done for job of other peolple not related to mine...Do not know if they may be of interest...

1) Once my teacher of Rpg400 asked for a "simple" program that, without relying on any message protocol like smtp, not using any conventional mail program, was able to send, receive and store messages from Pc cnnected in an intramail. I build a Vb app that worked with an access db (which should stay in a public folder). The vb App monitorized a table of acces to know when some messages related to the logged_in people (and/or to the machine_name), and if so displaied appropriate form on top of others on desktop....

2) A friend of mine once had to work on several image files to take care of some web pages. He asked for a software able to copy and duplicate files in a folder giving to the copy an appropriate conventional name.

3)Same friend asked a software able to read some Ascii files and extract and save to another file all strings that started with a particular char

4)Someone once had matters in filling a counter value in a filed of a linked access table with more than 250.000 record following particular rules for ordering and counting (a kind of group by counter).
As he was unable to tell me exactly which rules to follow, I build him a software that could guide him through process; the program shows all files mdb on his machine, on selection of one, shows all tables in the database, on selection of one shows all fields in table, then helps him build the select clause and the where condition, then helps him build the rules of updating, and then show the query and the code for a confirmation or a manual modifying, then runs it after saving to a log file the query and the "if" statements...

[irona20]

I did a GIS to finish my studies :)

[Simon666]

Originally posted by irona20
I did a GIS to finish my studies :)
What is GIS?

[Doctor Luz]

I did a program for formatting disks.

But I lost the source code because when I runned the program the hard disk was formatted.

:D :p ;)

[irona20]

Originally posted by Simon666

What is GIS?

Geographic Information System

[Simon666]

What is Geographic Information System? :confused: :D

What can it do? Calculate distances or paths to cities? Does it have a GUI? ... ?

[irona20]

Originally posted by Simon666
What is Geographic Information System? :confused: :D

What can it do? Calculate distances or paths to cities? Does it have a GUI? ... ?

:mad: :mad: :p
My GIS could do: load & unload maps, change visualization (colors, sizes and shapes), move in map, do searchs, calculate distances, zooms, and several things more :)

[Simon666]

Originally posted by irona20
My GIS could do: load & unload maps, change visualization (colors, sizes and shapes), move in map, do searchs, calculate distances, zooms, and several things more :)
Wow, what did you use for visualisation? OpenGL, DirectX, ... ?

[irona20]

Originally posted by Simon666

Wow, what did you use for visualisation? OpenGL, DirectX, ... ?

An activeX, called MapObjects, it is used in GIS :)

[Garrett Headley]

I've also spent considerable time writing GIS software, but using the MapX ActiveX control from mapinfo.com. Both are pretty good I think (and really the only choices other than the open source and rather complex GRAS), but I found MapX a little easier to use than MapObjects, and the most recent version supports just about every geo-raster format out there, in addition to the ESRI shape files (MapObjects/ArcView).

A good example of very simple freeware mapping software can be found at the www.esri.com site.

[irona20]

Well, in my first job I had to code a GIS, and they was using MapObjects, and for that I used it in my studies. I have never worked with MapX, but it is truth MapObjects sometines drives you crazy :)
In both cases, I only worked with ESRI, images and PNG files.

[Goodz13]

I don't any interesting programs, but my girlfriends first contract out of school was with a "Adult Toy" store called Venus Envy.

They used to have their meetings in resturants, and used to get mixed reactions from the waiters and waitresses if they had the laptop out and going through the site.

[CBasicNet]

Originally posted by Cimperiali
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Hi Cimperiali, I learnt VB with the book "Beginning VB5" by Peter Wright from WROX. That was a awful book (imo) for me. I don't like to learn programming that way, so un-systematic.

After all these years, I have forgotten most of VB's syntax. I would like to pick it up again. However I have a question to ask you, how easy is it to write a SDI/MDI app in VB6? It seems to me that not many books which dedicate a lot of pages on this topic, or maybe I haven't looked hard enough.:)