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A friend of mine asked for help with some VB6 code. Okay, so he is a good
friend, I promised to help. Got a 4.6 MB installation over slow mail, sigh.
Simple program, a treeview, an edit control, some buttons and labels, etc,
and a small text file, acting as database. Simple problem too, with the
parsing of the file. Easily fixed.
Just for fun, I took a treeview template I have here, added same controls,
rewrote parser to use pointers instead and compiled in PB/DLL 6.0. Exactly
same look and functionality, but about 1200% faster - one code, one exe,
total size 43 KB! Not even zipped - not even optimized..
Fun part - took less than an hour to do with DDT. Even funnier part - took
less than a minute before my friend called me up, when he saw the result.
Funniest part - he bought my PB version straight off for a sum that equals
about 500 US dollars..
Just wanted to share, and even if it's been said before, it's worth repeating:
Thank you, Bob Zale and the rest of the PB-team for an absolutely fantastic product!
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friend, I promised to help. Got a 4.6 MB installation over slow mail, sigh.
Simple program, a treeview, an edit control, some buttons and labels, etc,
and a small text file, acting as database. Simple problem too, with the
parsing of the file. Easily fixed.
Just for fun, I took a treeview template I have here, added same controls,
rewrote parser to use pointers instead and compiled in PB/DLL 6.0. Exactly
same look and functionality, but about 1200% faster - one code, one exe,
total size 43 KB! Not even zipped - not even optimized..
Fun part - took less than an hour to do with DDT. Even funnier part - took
less than a minute before my friend called me up, when he saw the result.
Funniest part - he bought my PB version straight off for a sum that equals
about 500 US dollars..
Just wanted to share, and even if it's been said before, it's worth repeating:
Thank you, Bob Zale and the rest of the PB-team for an absolutely fantastic product!
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