Just recently, I needed to implement a pause or delay loop in a Visual Basic 6 program.
Being lazy, my first instinct was just to do a for-next loop with a DoEvents in the middle. But this gave different results on different machines, which wasn’t what I was looking for.
The I tried using the Sleep API call.
I just hit an interesting error in VB6 today.
I was trying to calculate a distance between two points. No problem there except I didn’t want to put something on a page that said “48.723569″ miles. That would look dumb.
No problem, I thought, I’ll format the output using VB’s format command, giving the number string as “#####0.0″.
But for certain numbers, format kept giving me the answer 0.0
No problem, I’ll use Round instead.
Same error. Some calculations worked, others got rounded to zero regardless… (more…)
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