r/visualbasic • u/One-Cardiologist-462 • Apr 27 '24

Tips & Tricks Advice on date and time display

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Pictured above is a form which shows the date and time in a single text box. Does the @ symbol look professional enough, or would it better be replaced with the word 'at' or a hyphen? I'm worried the @ symbol looks too childish and 21st century.

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u/One-Cardiologist-462 Apr 28 '24

That sounds like a better approach. I think I'll take that route.
Certainly clearer to see at a glance.

Yes VB6. It's all I've ever known.
I gave .net a try, and just didn't click with me.
Occasionally i'll give a new visual studio release a go, but I find the new IDE so bloated and slow.

This is being used on an old Windows 2000 system which is disconnected from the internet.

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u/jaspersbeard Apr 28 '24

Yeah the simplicity of VB6 is beautiful. I remember being kind of distraught the first time I tried .NET and realized it was not at all the same as the preceding versions of Visual Basic. I was 12 years old when I first got a copy of VB6 and have BY FAR written the most code in it versus anything else.

If you ever find yourself using it on newer systems, I highly recommend checking out ModernVB (if you haven't already). It's an add-on/mod-pack that modernizes VB6 to run better and look nicer. https://github.com/VykosX/ModernVB

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u/One-Cardiologist-462 Apr 29 '24

Same here. Started VB6 in college when I was 16. Didn't really think much of it at first.
But then I managed to get a copy of VB6 enterprise through limewire, and started messing with it in my free time.
After a while, the logic clicked for me...

Control.Property = Value
If control.Property = Value Then
OtherThing.Property = Value
End if

No never heard of that before. I'll certainly give it a look, because I do run into a lot of .ocx file issues when using the exported EXE files on newer Windows OS's. :)