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Subject: Re: Winboard improvement wish list

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 18:24:19 01/06/01

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On January 06, 2001 at 19:25:12, Wayde Beasley wrote:

>On January 06, 2001 at 15:15:33, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>On January 06, 2001 at 11:40:11, Wayde Beasley wrote:
>>
>>-- a snip --
>>
>>>Mann apparently can get no one to help out with Winboard and is the de facto el
>>>presidente of the software.  I looked at the code and am too dumb to help out.
>>>If I could, I would b/c I don't like re-inventing the wheel.  But, if I cannot
>>>help Mann and he says nobody else is helping him, yet I still want to do the
>>>Freeboard thing, then by golly I'm stuck with VB6. [no, I ain't going to learn
>>>C, period end paragraph]
>>
>>WinBoard is taking control over the stdin and stdout streams. Is that possible
>>in VB6 and how?
>
>
>Yep, it's possible - Freeboard does it in VB6, but through a C dll.  The files
>are at http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/
>
>There's also http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/stdio-VB-example.zip
>but I am using http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/RedirectControl.zip
>for the moment.  You can see a picture of it in action:
>
>http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/freeboard-screen-capture.JPG
>
>
>
>
>>
>>//Peter

Thanks!
It's all there.
//Peter



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