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and I'd probably have been really fond of using "EOF" in lieu of length(<record array>). But given that the markers of the SDD paper are your teachers, and you know how bad at this stuff most of them are, and that their only real guide is the syllabus, if it makes sense, is syntactically correct...

And for Evolution all you had to remember the main buzzwords for the four paradigms and BS the rest

ewww OLE. Word in an OLE container is not terribly pretty. You need the Word VBA documentation with you to do anything. For example, this code conducted a word count on the contents of a rich text box called rtxMain: Private Sub DoWordCount() Dim objW As Object Dim oDoc As Object...

I did not like this question. There was no obvious mistake because (1) they were asking for a logic error and (2) they did not offer a good description of how the routine was expected to operate. My answer revolved around not actually being able to turn off the ATM due to the incorrect...

yes, any file with an association using the lpOperation as 'OPEN' should work provided the lpFile is valid

or http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (formerly from Nullsoft) or the July edition of APC has the full version of InstallShield Express 3.5

OK, I'll go through it: Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long hWnd is the Handle to...

^ that would be true in the real world, but I would presume you by now know that SDD is not even approaching the same universe as the real world.

or you can delcare them as Private [members of the class] and keep them in the frm file. It just won't be accessible to other forms and modules.

excuse me, how does that fit in my defintion of pretty?! :p surely even programming monkeys can tell that (I hope :eek: )

true. Of course it used up perfectly valuable revision time which would have gone a very long way to helping no one get any more marks... Besides, most could argue that playing games (or circumventing various draconian network security policies) was an escape from the general illogicalness of...

and copeous On Error Goto or On Error Resume Next statements will ensure even if there is a data error, the program doesn't fall over and dump you back to the IDE in the middle of your presentation...

depends on your teacher. Ours was mainly colour

...or playing a certain board game :P ...

that being the case, the CommonDialog's ShowHelp() function will be useful. Provided, of course, this is VB...

Amen

I dunno, between all the text books there was no concensus on the topic - I mean there were disparaties between Excel and Heinnman and PDC. On top of that they were generally vague. Object Oriented and Procedural are fairly straight forward (polymorphism excepted, but that's due to conflicting...

^ that looked pretty. Make sure it looks pretty, that is the most important part for most for your teachers/markers (generally speaking, of course some of them may not be so easily fooled by presentation...).

you actually did a formal testing process? I made it up :-o Sounded good though

yes, the old 2U Computing Studies course was like a cross between SDD and IPT. The 3U included, amongst other things, a slightly modified version of The Evolution of Programming Languages; just to turn some of you off if you are lamenting the current situation...