link between quicbasic and visual basic?

guest... · Post by **guest...** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:54 pm

Hello,
at work we have old programs written in Quick basic. But now I want to make a new program with windows,buttons etc (in visual basic)... that uses the old program. Is is possible without rewrite the old program? Is there some link between qbasic en visual basic?
Thank you very much!

buff1 · Post by **buff1** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:53 am

I'd suggest that it would be easier in PowerBasic for windows.

much of the syntax for many statements remains almost identical to
those in Qbasic and QuickBasic.

They have a console compiler and gui compiler both are excellent.
The support is the best. Help is available (sometimes within minutes)
on their forum.

Neither compiler requires a runtime module and the compiled code is
significantly smaller than VB.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:43 am

To try to answer the Guest's question, yes, VB retains much of QuickBASIC. But, you are going to have to edit it, sometimes quite a bit, in order to make it work properly. Then, once it's working as a normal BASIC-type program, then you can proceed to do the changes you want to make it a Windows-type program, with buttons, check boxes, option boxes, what-have-you Windows dressings. One thing, it will be a good learning experience for you!

Dr_D · Post by **Dr_D** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:49 am

To add to that... Visual Basic 5 would be the best to start with, if you're going with windows VB. You don't need to have the MSDN CD's installed to use the help functions. There is also Visual Basic for DOS, but I've never used it.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:32 pm

Dr_D:
Why not Visual Basic 6.0? That version seems to be as popular in the VB class as QuickBASIC 4.5 is in the QB class.