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That does give a more clear picture of things. To be fair, it's easy to fall behind in tech - especially these days. Having the original owner still involved and either insistent that the old stuff still works or that the redev is not worth it is harmful as newbies trying to insist that a complete redev is necessary every time a new language/framework/etc comes out. Still, running a DOS app would certainly put the company in the minority of successful companies in today's world. Finding a good way to bridge between the old and new "gracefully" is certainly one of the bigger challenges so there's no doubt that you have your work cut out for you. I can't believe (no matter how talented you may be) that they're putting the fate of the company in a single developers hands. That's a lot of pressure on you. We have a local company here that I believe was getting into the tradeshow market as well - I even talked to them at one time about mutual opportunities since we have done a lot of work with Kiosks, which have become quite popular at trade shows.
Keep your head down and good luck!
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Hi All,
I am now typing in my finals hours with my current employer. Following the advice I have had faffing has ruled the day since I was told. The upside to this is the software (the VB thing) has not (yet) gone wrong. That is a relief! Now I wondering how to unhook my Drop Box account from my PC, will simply uninstalling it work?
Glenn
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a severe beating with a baseball bat followed by a general roasting with a flamethrower would seem to work (if that doesn't work then try repeating it on the PC)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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glennPattonPUB wrote: The upside to this is the software (the VB thing) has not (yet) gone wrong.
Make sure to feature that you code in VB on your CV. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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don't you want him to be employed?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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You try explaining to agents that you can do Assembler and yes you have done VB...just get awkward silence on the phone...
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glennPattonPUB wrote: You try explaining to agents that you can do Assembler and yes you have done VB... anything, and you just get awkward silence on the phone...
FIFY
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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glennPattonPUB wrote: Hi All,
I am now typing in my finals hours with my current employer. Following the advice I have had faffing has ruled the day since I was told. The upside to this is the software (the VB thing) has not (yet) gone wrong. That is a relief! Now I wondering how to unhook my Drop Box account from my PC, will simply uninstalling it work?
Go to Preferences in the Dropbox software, select Accounts and then click Unlink This Dropbox. Then you should be able to uninstall Dropbox and finally delete the Dropbox folder on the computer.
Then I would clamp a high powered electromagnet to the side of the computer and turn it on.
Now the bastards won't get any of your important personal information.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Quote: Then I would clamp a high powered electromagnet to the side of the computer and turn it on.
Nahh! just accidently drop rare earth magnet that we use a lot of, these things will kill credit cards in a wallet if you walk by a bench with them on!
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we used to have door passes that did that (and where do you think we all stored ours? yep that's right in our wallets, a bit of warning would have been nice there BBBS)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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glennPattonPUB wrote: The upside to this is the software (the VB thing) has not (yet) gone wrong.
It never will go wrong*
* You did include "On Error Resume Next" ?
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Quote: * You did include "On Error Resume Next" ?
no that was going to be the plan if this version broke... I still can't get over the logic of including a way continuing if some goes wrong, "On Error Resume Next" or as I prefer it "if it errors, ignore it and carry on" fantastic! What the h*ll were they dinking when they came up with that? 
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its VB its designed for the lowest common denominator i.e. people who will keep sticking their hand in the fire to find out if it still hurts
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Which is where I can see all these scripting language like Python ending up!
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: its VB its designed for the lowest common denominator i.e. people who will keep sticking their hand in the fire to find out if it still hurts
FTFY 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Basic I seem to remember is Beginners All purpose Symbol Instruction Code, the clue should be the Beginners bit,
I wrote a supporting application for this thing in C# works/no complaints one afternoon!  , Basic still has problems probably but not my problem now.
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glennPattonPUB wrote: Basic still has problems probably but not my problem now.
Until you can't get any other work because it is on your CV.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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There used to be a similar construct in COBOL (probably still is) that was commonly used in serial file access because when the end of file was hit it threw error code 23 - if you were processing a whole file this would happen once each run & therefore was an expected error.
Hence, you would continue to the next line after the read, but then the next line would be to check the error status - if it was 23, you knew you had finished, otherwise you invoked the error process.
If it's just being used to hide errors, though, I'm in full agreement. Probably why VB gets such a bad rap, but the coder has to take some of the blame.
Regards, Stewart
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It's always the same, blame the tool not the tool using the tool!
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glennPattonPUB wrote: The upside to this is the software (the VB thing) has not (yet) gone wrong.
And when it does, your name is first on the list.
True story, I had created an Access database and VBA interface waaaaay back in '97. They closed the company site I worked at in 2000 during the slash and burn buyout process Tyco was doing at the time. After Microsoft dropped the backward compatabilty in Access 2000 I got a call at home in 2001 from them wanting to know if I'd be interested in fixing the now broken database. I told them I needed to think about it, then said nah, sorry you're on your own.
Good luck by the way. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: then said nah
I might have said $$$.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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It felt soooooooooo good to tell them off and leave them hanging. Dennis Kozlowski[^] can burn in h3ll, the company I was with was multimillion dollar profitable, but not profitable enough. Tyco sold the physical assets and moved production offshore.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
modified 27-Aug-14 11:56am.
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S Houghtelin wrote: It was broke, so I fixed it.
Except the link above, unless you intended to link to the Wikipedia page on the name "Dennis".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Once I knew it was broke, I fixed it.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWPWrR-94NY[^]
If 13 dogs can cooperate.... then again, I have heard that managing s/w types is like herding cats... maybe we should wait for the sequel - 13 cats jumping rope....
sigh, not having a good project day... doom is written all over it
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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