Basic drawing program
This tutorial doesn't just show you how to make a simple drawing program in VB6, it also teaches you things like error handling. Good for beginners who want some hands-on approach.
Irregular Forms and Region Clipping
Forms that don't have the regular rectangular shape can
differentiate your application from others. In addition,
irregular forms can be used to call attention to an issue in
your application. Windows has provided a way to create an
irregular form since 1995 via region clipping. Nevertheless, it
is not exactly easy to create these things well. Despite the
promise, there are issues with the way these forms look:
absense of anti-aliasing require that exquisite graphic work be
done on the background of the form
Irregular Forms and Region Clipping for VB6 and VB.NET,Part 2
Unless you've been living at the command line, you've probably
Seen those snazzy skinnable media players that have
non-rectangular forms. Sonique, Windows Media, Real One are
prime examples. If you read part 1 of this article, you know
that creating anything more complicated than a circle is a
gigantic pain. So wouldn't it be cool if you could specify an
image, and the code would create the form for you, discarding
the transparent color for you. Such functionality would be
great. That is exactly what Brian Yule created.
Magnifying The Desktop With Visual Basic
A very handy application that's included with the Windows operating system is the magnifier, which zooms in on a portion of the desktop. In this article Jason shows us how to create a cool zoomable magnifier using Visual Basic 6 and the Windows API.
Real Time Pixel Manipulation in VB5
I had always used C for anything dealing with pointers and pixels, it's just not something you do in VB. Not only was VB slower than C, but the terrible VB pixel twins Point and Pset made image processing unbearable. But no longer - VB5 is now comparable to the speed of C in many areas, and thanks to Safe Arrays we can access the memory directly.
Skinning (BitBlt Introduction)
Want to make your app look as good as Media Player or Winamp? This tutoral hopes to get you going to a fully skinned killer app!
Text - To - Speech
This is a simple tutorial which will show you how to make the
computer speak anything. You can use this in any program and
the computer can say the most complicated words. People fairly
new to Visual Basic can do this.
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