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It's interesting that VB5 and 6 were what I call "object based." You could use pre-defined objects, but didn't have to create them yourself. In fact you needed
by analog31 1y ago
It's interesting that VB5 and 6 were what I call "object based." You could use pre-defined objects, but didn't have to create them yourself. In fact you needed some special "edition" to create objects, which I never did. But was a great way to ease a beginner into OOP -- by using them before creating them.
Now of course I'm not a beginner -- that can only happen once. And maybe it has gotten easier to learn. I remember the series in Byte Magazine about OOP, and it was just utterly baffling, but now I can't imagine why it seemed hard.
Meanwhile, I stepped off the software development bus, and so I don't care as much about "finished" software. Building crude GUI's in Tkinter is satisfactory for my needs these days.
- int_19h 1y agoIt sounds like you're describing VB4 and below. In VB5+, the underlying object model was COM, and you absolutely could define and instantiate classes. Many built-in types for common operations also had to be instantiated - e.g. Collection, or anything to do with database access.