Re: OUT / INP in Visual Basic for Windows?

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From: Phillip Cooper
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:25

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In article <1992Sep29.175957.30278@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucca021@ucl.ac.uk (L C Willoughby) writes:
>
>Does Visual Basic for Windows have the output/input to/from hardware ports
>commands OUT and INP that QuickBasic and most other basics have? Looking
>through books on VB for Windows in a bookstore I saw no mention of these
>commands.
>

These instructions are unavailable in VB/WIN 1.0.  Although, several
third party libraries provide them (and you could also write your
own DLL to do this).

>Are they available in the new Visual Basic for DOS?

Yes.

>
>Does Visual Basic for DOS have routines for programming mouse interaction?
>

The mouse is automatically available to your programs in VB/DOS.  Similiar
to VB/WIN.

>Will Quickbasic 4.5 *.QLB & *.LIB libraries work with VB for DOS?
>
No.  VB/DOS uses far strings, and QB uses near strings.  Generally this 
difference would cause the libraries to be incompatable.

>Thanks
>
>Charles Willoughby
>
>Department of Chemistry
>University College London
>UK

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