Sat, October 14, 2006, 07:00 PM under
Windows |
Vista
The other day at one my talks somebody asked me if the new Vista native APIs I show callable from managed code are also callable from VB6. I hadn't thought about that before, but in principle, yes, they should be. He was specifically interested in glass (
glass, as in what I talked about here, here, here, here, here and here.).
Unsurprisingly, it took me longer to download the VB6 iso, to install it on my laptop and to remember how to work with that IDE, than what it did to get glass in VB6. A form, a module and a total of 11 lines of code later and the following screenshot shows the project running (or if you prefer
without transparency):
Note that just like with Windows Forms (but unlike WPF), actually making controls look good on the glass surface is not trivial (unless you enjoy painting everything yourself!). You get a glimpse of the challenge
here and a full blown project
here.