Hi Thomas,
In VB6 a variable is not public unless you name or dimension it a public
variable. I use the same variable in all of the different subs without fear of
it being seen in other subs or form load etc. Of course it is also cool in VB6
to be able to name and use public variables when you want or need them.
BFN
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Hi Josh,
It can compile exe files from what I have read on the FAQ, and the
author mentioned writing games, but I don't honestly see really complex
games being designed. Especially, games where there are several game
characters, weapons, etc involved like an rpg.
One of the things I did not like about this simple language is it takes
us right back to the bad old days of structured programming rather than
object oriented programming. Why is that bad?
Well, in structured programming generally speaking for every game
character you created, weapon, etc had to have it's own variables. Even
if they were placed in a struct, (structure,) they were not very safe as
they were publically visible to the rest of the program, and risked
being over written accidently.
When object oriented design came out it simplified things for
developers by arranging variables and functions according to classes,
and were referenced by an object name.The end result was you could use
the same variables over and over by creating a new instance of them, and
there were greater protection involved since each variable, function,
could be restricted to public, private, or protected status.
I suppose I could go on and on about object oriented design verses
structured design, but needless to say it is just better suited for
writing games. You can refere to that game character, weapon, but a real
object name, such as vader, skywalker, r2, leia, etc rather than a
list of associated variables.
Jim
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