[Coco] Rs232 Pack

[Salvador Garcia]

 I sort of agree in that Java is somewhat like C++, but once you start programming in it you'll see that they are worlds apart. Without getting into the syntax, C++ was designed to run on top of the hardware.Obviously, with Windows, Linux and others, various levels of abstraction have been introduced. Even VCC makes heavy use of components (DLLs) that form a chain going to the hardware. Java, on the other hand, was meant to run in an isolated environment, a sand box you can call it. This isolated environment is what we call the Virtual machine (VM). This is a huge level of abstraction! But the advantage is that the VM being the bridge from the Java app to the host's environment, a developer can write the Java source and know that it will work in any VM, independent of operating system and hardware.

I am sure that VCC could be implemented in Java; however, I would think that it would be slower because of the added layers that it has to go through. If I recall correctly, VCC was written using Visual Studio (VS) 6 which was MS' development environment of the 90s. I know that great effort has been made to migrate it to a newer version of VS. Last I heard, it was loadable in VS 2015. Perhaps that's where the original confusion comes from. VS was an environment that hosted Visual Basic, Visual J++ and C++, so some people, upon hearing "VS" automatically assume that is VB.

I would probably compare Java more to C# than to its ancestor C++. :-) Salvador



    On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 1:50:18 PM CST, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I know java is similar to c+ but I just never was able to get a grasp on it. It's allot more complex than java

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 Oops. Looks like we got off the list. I am forwarding this back into it. Salvador
    On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 11:37:28 AM CST, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:

 OK. I don't code in c.  I only use Java    and I still remember visual basic.
I don't know if a. DLL in MinGW would work
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No VB in VCC! It is all written in C++ :-) Salvador


On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 10:48:05 AM CST, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:

First does anyone know if VCC was written using Visual Basic?

.DLL is an acronym for "Dynamic Link Library". Otherwise known by the more generic name "shared object library", this is a collection of common functions and data entities which a program may refer to at run time, without requiring the function code or data to be duplicated within the program file itself.

You can use MinGW to create a. DLL

MinGW comes with a handy tool which does most of the work for you:
dlltool.exe



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Question is there any way to take the Old Tandy Rs232 Pack and make it a loaded rom in Vcc? If not I would like to try and write Rs232pak.dll but I need some information on how to do it? The specs would be the same as the old Tandy Rs232 Pack.

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