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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Communication Dark Basic with Visual Basic or C++

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MateiSoft Romania
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Posted: 17th Oct 2013 20:50
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Hello Forum!
I want to make an interface for my dbpro application.
And i want to drag from a list in visual basic/c++ an object and place it on my dbpro app(exactly as fps creator). I managed though to link my dbpro app in the user interface made in Visual Basic.

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 17th Oct 2013 21:10
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My software is based on this model as well; I use a variety of methods ranging from windows messaging, networking, mutexes, file-mapping, consoles and XML.

This kind of interoperation is not easy when using .NET because DBPRO can't access .NET dlls; not easily anyway. Even for me a frequent user of DBPRO and VB.NET, getting it all to work is a pain; handling the events, creating data packets, security etc; it has taken me months to things working properly; and there is still work to be done.

It is only worth getting into if you a going to release a product or you have lots of time on your hands.

If you can put together an efficient UI with images, sprites, BBB GUI or Top GUI; then go for it. Have a search on the forums for UI snippets and plugins.

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Thank you so much for your fast response! And yes i am planing to make this application big and publish it along with my other apps and games on my website

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this, Communication-demo
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Thanks pcRaider for the response! This is a good code example and i will take advantage of it! However i have troubles communicating with a visual basic or c++ application...like this : VISUAL BASIC(INPUT COMMAND) - DARK BASIC(OUTPUT UNDERSTANDING AND EXECUTING)

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Anyways i managed to think of something and i applied your code. However when i execute a command in the input program, the output program which is the main program, loops the command from the input over and over again...for example its making cubes i don't know how many times per second

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Posted: 19th Oct 2013 03:57 Edited at: 19th Oct 2013 06:58
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New, Communication-demo2
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God bless you my friend! It really worked!
Thanks again for your patience!

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