well I know loads that say how rubbishy uac is and always make it go away. I have used linux so its not strange to me placing stuff in my home dir but even so. At 03:47 p.m. 10/04/2010, you wrote: >Hi Jim, >Ahem...I wouldn't say just fine with all versions of Windows. Fact is >your games do have some problems under Windows Vista and Windows 7 do >to some design problems. For example, none of your programs are fully >user account control compatible. Therefore in order to get them to >operate correctly I and many others have to go in and disable that >security feature which really isn't a good solution to the problem. >Simply put saving settings to the applications home directory might >have been fine for Windows 98 and Windows XP, but is a big no-no on >newer Windows operating systems. >And, yes, while it is true the Visual Basic 6 runtime is quite small >it doesn't ship by default with Windows 7. It now is an extra >component that needs to be installed where on XP it was included with >the OS. Now, days if you wrote something in Visual Basic .NET, for >example, it wouldn't necessarily need anything else because most .NET >stuff now comes installed with Windows 7. That's just one advantage of >using a more current language. >However, Visual Basic 6 itself has a number of problems that probably >don't matter to you personally but does for other software developers. >Fact is most newer software developers, myself included, are trained >to use object oriented programming concepts which are superior to >procedural programming in most cases. Visual Basic 6'6 lack of >advanced object oriented programming frankly sucks. Visual Basic .NET >on the other hand has extremely good object oriented programming >techniques. >So, anyway, while I do respect your opinion I'm afraid i do have to >disagree. visual Basic 6 is very old software, a very old language, >and no new programmer should be trying to learn something that is out >of date. Windows 7 is current, what will be eventually replacing XP >eventually, and that is what we as software developers should be >targeting. I guess I feel that way because from the day I stepped >into a programming class room I was taught, which makes sense to me, >to think of the future of the market and plan ahead for changes in the >software industry. > >Cheers! > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [email protected].
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