Total newbie help please?

[Frogger]

I've just downloaded the desktop trial version of Basic4PPC and I've been taking a look and it looks good! But, I have tried the following and always get an error which says "reg is not a known control or object" error when I try to run it. I've added the Registry components if that helps?

Sub Globals
   'Declare the global variables here.

End Sub

Sub App_Start
   Form1.Show
   reg.New1
        reg.RootKey(reg.rtCurrentUser)
   HTCSENSEEXIST = reg.GetValue("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Today\Items\HTC Sense", "Enabled")
End Sub

I know this must be really, really simple to most of you but the last time I did any Basic programming was back on the Amstrad CPC back in the 80s! I was OK at that then but this is a whole different ball game.

:sign0144: Sorry if this question is really stupid! :sign0144:

 

[derez]

Have you added the registry.dll and a registry object ? After adding the library (components) press add object under the tools menu and name it reg if you want this name.

 

[Frogger]

Have you added the registry.dll and a registry object ? After adding the library (components) press add object under the tools menu and name it reg if you want this name.

See, how daft am I? :sign0161:

No, I hadn't done the second part.

Thank you for your help!

 

[Erel]

You can try out out libraries tutorial: Table of contents

 

[Frogger]

You can try out out libraries tutorial:

Thank you, I will read that!

One more question? In Mortscript if you want to run another external program it's just:

run("\Program Files\SomeDirectory\SomeProgram.exe")

How is this done in Basic4PPC? I've looked, but I can't find the equivalent. It's probably somewhere - but I'm missing it!

Thank you.

 

[mjcoon]

...if you want to run another external program... How is this done in Basic4PPC?

From the Help:

Shell
Runs an external program.
Syntax: Shell (Program File, Arguments)
Example:
Shell ("Calc.exe", "")

(But note that this does not tell you when the program completes.)

Mike.

 

[Frogger]

From the Help:

Shell
Runs an external program.
Syntax: Shell (Program File, Arguments)
Example:
Shell ("Calc.exe", "")

(But note that this does not tell you when the program completes.)

Mike.

Great. Thanks for the help. I was looking for "run" or "execute" or something similar and didn't think of "shell".

Regards.

Steve