VB Programming Ideas ...

[Method]

Basically for my college project i have to create a semi-decent program using VB6.

I dont realy have any ideas as to what i could create, it can be anything at all...

Anyone got any ideas?
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[m99dws]

Create a shell that replaces explorer.exe as your default operating shell, so you can create a GUI in the style of a customised OS.

[Going2fast]

Create a program that say station A has a document, Guy A says "hey I found something" Guy B says ok send it to my station B. Guy A sends over the document and it pops up on station B.
Kinda like duel screen but over network and comps.

Dunno if it can be done. Sounds cool, was talking about it on another forum im on.

Andy
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[Skunkcap Freddie]

make your own media player

[Suzuki]

These are some projects that my friends did for their final year project at uni (computer science):

Enigma machine (encrypts and decripts messages in an identical manner to the original Enigma machine).

Chess Game (with a neural network allowing the AI to learn and improve it's ability)

Networked card games (he did sh!t-head)

Fax to email convertor, using OCR rather than just attaching images (my project)

Can't remember any others off the top of my head.

You could even write your own Internet Browser (something to replace IE? )
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[veeeffarr]

I made a file moving utility a while back (You could select files by type from multiple destinations and send them to different folders based on your own criteria)

[Kram]

i made a VB6 back-end to my webdesign coursework (event driven calendar system, aiding in the introduction to multi-subject lesson organisation).

which i sold to my school for £1k lol.

try making a game/AI.

AI is quite fun to make, if you can get it fairly advanced in VB
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[Method]

Ive made a game with AI before, was pretty cool actually, but yeah.

Erm,

In the end i had a look at the mp3 player style thing, could not get the thing working, what ever i tried, so ive opted for some file editing/creating/reading/saving stuff with some nice calculations hit in there....

Basically a vehicle program, load in car data from a file, change certain parts of the vehicle that have a direct effect on the vehicles performance... the technical bit is that different objects will conflict with each other...EG fitting 4WD will give you that bit of extra torque, but will add a lot to your wieght, which will reduce your 0-60 time etc...

Basic shell is done, most mods are done, now its just linking the effects back into the spec sheet and thats the basics done.

Then i have plans for a "Budget", where you can set a budget for your vehicle, load it up, and obviously each mod will take your budget away until you have none left.

There are currently 5 pre-made car spec sheets, but with plans for about 20, and a feature to create your own car / vehicle.

Also i have plans for "Custom Mods", where you can create your own mod - its name, part of the car, effects it has, any conflicts with other components etc... that might be a touch hard though

Tutor says the idea is more than good enough for the Diploma people at Edexcel, and that its quite a creative and imaginative design. As it doesnt focus on simply chucking beasty rims and big exhausts on and it goes 10000mph, its actually technical with the planned calculations, and the conflicts between parts is a good idea too.

So yeah, oppinions people?
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[kawakid]

I am a VB programmer and have undertaken many projects.

However, mostly they are always interfaces between systems, ie to pass financial records from one system to another, to convert from our wages system to our personnel system etc.

At uni, you'll spend ages making realy nice screens and interfaces, when in real life, 95% of your programs won't even have 1 single displayed form.

A lot of the work in VB is getting it to act as a link between systems.

Good luck, if you need any example code, I can let you have some.

Ohh if your lecturer tells you, you can't have an on error goto , tell him
he is talking absolute c**p.

Remember when I was at uni, they had a thing about Gotos, of course it should be structured, but for error checking and for braking loops its okay.

Real world is not uni, they just want it doing quickly.

At my work its just me. Hmm no one to help, but google and vb tips aghhhhhh
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[veeeffarr]

For an mp3 player you can just reference the Windows Media player control library and reference the OCX file so you can use custom features within your code.

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