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Draugnar wrote: I think the assembler code took less than 1K so the whole thing was under 9K and our entire package could run on a 512K XT very reliably.
The handler or the application? IIRC the big buffer handler I'd used took less than 1k ram. I actually have the HD from my 486 sitting around somewhere, unless it suffered bitrot over the last few years I could probably still boot it if I actually wanted to.
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The handler module took 1K on disc and 9K in memory (adding in the 8K for the buffer). The whole application took significantly more (it's been 20+ years and my memory fades now that I'm in my 40s), but still ran on the 512K XTs that had been spec'd by our beta client (who got the final app at a greatly reduced price over the later retail clients).
-Draugnar
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The most interesting part of the project was the hand assembling. The Microsoft assembler put in header info for the linker that I didn't want as it was going in as inline binary, so I sat down with the 8086 Assembly manual and hand assembled it so I had just the code used by the routine. Having taken C+ (not C++) and 360/370 Assembler in college sure made that job a lot easier.
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leppie wrote: I have been given a VB6 project to upgrade to C#
Bah, that's nothing. Or null. Or empty. 
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Surely this is better than being given a C# app to downgrade to VB6? And better than being given a VB 6 to maintain.
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Better that than the other way round
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That's was a pretty big typo there ^^
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leppie wrote: - 400 Upgrade warnings
- 100 Compiler errors
- 2 Missing dll references...
Wouldn't such a mammoth statistics suggest going for a fresh VB.NET development rather?
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I think the application has less lines of code than errors, so yes I am pushing for a fresh C# app 
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leppie wrote: so yes I am pushing for a fresh C# app
Good Move! Rather than suffering sick with the horrible VB! 
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leppie wrote: - 400 Upgrade warnings
- 100 Compiler errors
- 2 Missing dll references...
I don't understand how this can be classified as a "coding horror". If you copy VB6 code into a VB.NET (or C#) project and compile it, I am supprised that you did not get more warnings and errors. As we developers know, one syntax error or misspelling could cause tens or hundreds of other errors, which means when you fix one, the others will disappear, too.
Coding Horror implies that someone wrote horrible code. In this case, who that someone would be? The VB6 programmer or you?
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Xiangyang Liu wrote: Coding Horror implies that someone wrote horrible code
Or that someone is experience a horror
Xiangyang Liu wrote: If you copy VB6 code into a VB.NET
It was not copy. I used the converter in VS2005, which does a pretty good job, most of the forms actually open in the designer Most of the issues seem to be related to either missing libraries and interop stuff. The ActiveX bits and WinForms converted very well.
xacc.ide
The rule of three: "The first time you notice something that might repeat, don't generalize it. The second time the situation occurs, develop in a similar fashion -- possibly even copy/paste -- but don't generalize yet. On the third time, look to generalize the approach."
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VB6 -> C# ... Does the converter fix all the optional parameters from the VB6 code? I've never used it myself  .
If not you'll likely have a bunch of Type.Missing's to add
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Don't forget that most of those warnings will be in the form of, "this function doesn't exist anymore. You've got to write your own" types of warnings.
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Now this[^] is something you don't see in an application very often. I wonder why?
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I like your screen size estimate. Puts things in perspective very nicely.
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In terms of 3 dimensional CGI views, what kind of perspective do you need to view 400m of backdrop?
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Good comemnt on the screen size. As I read the thread, I was thinking what monitor even has 25000 pixels across it's width. A 50 inch monitor would need a pixel width of 50 microns in order to accomadate that.
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Yeah, even if the columns were a single pixel wide, the grid still extend over 21 feet. Now that's useful! 
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So what we need now is one of:
- much bigger monitors;
- horizontal outlining;
- line wrap (and maybe taller monitors).
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...and if the user looks at 1 cell per second, it would take almost 7 hours
to view the data for 1 row..if he can get it to scroll that fast
Sweet.
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I was only able to get 24,348 columns, he'll never be able to make it 25,000. It's impossible.
Seriously though, could you imagine trying to come up with 25,000 column headers? I can just imagine the person trying to read the data and remember a column value that was 10,000 columns behind where they currently scrolled.
My next question, is this a web app? Can you imagine that amount of data over a healthy 56k line. 
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It is just one of those things people come up with to justify their quest for a new
and bigger machine ...
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Chris Kowalske wrote: Can you imagine that amount of data over a healthy 56k line
Sure, he'd just have to come back and check it next month to see if it has loaded 
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