Help Needed Regarding Visual Basic Forms

Is this a windows target environment?

Which version of VB are you using?

How is the VB app engaging the C app? Are they separate executables?

If you have compiled each app to .exe, I don't see that any regular user can see your source code??

Why have you coded the "back end" in C? (do you mean something like C++ ?)

Perhaps you should do the whole thing in a single Visual C++ app or C# or something.

Chris

I can understand why he would want to use visual basic for the GUI. It is much easier to use than visual C++. I'm thinking maybe the C part can be compiled as a DLL and the visual basic can include it as a library. If the visual basic can be compiled as an EXE file then the source code shouldn't be accessible.

"It is much easier to use than visual C++." Uh, no it is not. What he needs to do is learn his IDE.

Hi guys, thanks for your feedback. Actually, I've no trouble concealing the back-end source code as it's invoked via the front end as in,

Call Shell("CMD /c textv2.exe", vbNormalFocus),

where textv2.exe is the executable file created using C code. The GUI is just there to make it 'user-friendly'. The textv2.exe executable is invoked via a command button in the GUI.

The real challenge that I have is to make only the 'form' visible to users as they've no need to see anything else but so far it looks as though it's impossible to launch the form (or GUI) alone. Having said that, perhaps I should add that my command of VB is average since I only learnt what I needed to learn to make my app have a nice look and feel :-) so I'm sure there's a way to accomplish that. Btw, I think it'd be very helpful to compile the VB code as a binary file @ Rixter so I'm definitely gonna look into that. Cheers guys.

Limpho Mothae

I think if you look into your MSDN docs & samples, you will see that there are sample vb apps that do what you want. One thing I'm thinking of is the splash screen that comes up first, and then calls the form you want to load (as the main form, but if you have more than one form, you can call which ever one you want I think)

I'm reasonably sure that you can do this in a single app, and compile the whole thing to exe, unless you are actually working with some form of vba? (excel, word, etc.)

I'm certain that in vb, you can create an executable, which will be binary. That doesn't make it crack-proof though. In windows, nothing is crack proof, because all applications have to interact with the OS, and the hackers have apps that capture every message back and forth between the app and the OS. that is the keys to the kingdom.

my favourite help site is called www.vb-helper.com

Chris

Thanks Chris, that's very helpful. You guys are amazing :-) Cheers.

Limpho