Weigh Board

[Salchester]

Hello Everyone,

I have been asked by a centre that keeps Birds of Prey, to create an electronic weight board in VB 6.0, in order to monitor the bird’s weights etc each day.

I am very new to VB 6.0 and haven’t got a clue on how this can be done. Any help greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

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The board should display:

• Birds Name
• Birds Species
• Birds Sex
• Bird Fat Weight
• Birds Low Weight
• Birds Weight before Flying
• Birds Weight after Flying
• Food Given
• Food Weight
• Food Quantity
• Birds Handler
• Today’s Weather
• Today’s date

All this information will need to be stored in a (.txt) file with the filename of the “Today’s Date” field. The above information will need to be available for editing at anytime.

Calculations

• The food weight will be calculated by subtracting the “Birds Weight after Flying” by Birds Weight before Flying”

[teknomage1]

I thought VB was your language? http://codenewbie.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3750

[Salchester]

It is my preferred language, but there is a lot of things that i don't know how to do. You can't know everthing!

I just know the basics so far!

Many Thanks

[Joel Egghead]

Do you have VB 6 or .net?

I guess ether way I would use a database...do you have access? I guess that would work depend on the scale of your program. VB 6 & VB.NET go about connecting to a database in a diffrent way but they are similar. VB 6 uses what is called a ADO control and VB.NET OLE data adapters...sounds more complicated but actually made really easy in VB.NET. I haven’t programmed in VB 6 for ages but you should be able to do a search on yahoo for "VB 6 ADO Control" and you should have plenty of resources for what you need.
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