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John Morris

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Dec 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/11/98
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I know that VBA is a programming language.

But what I want to know is will it eventually be
THE programming language common to all apps?

IOW... will LISP and script files someday be gone
and VBA used instead?

Will the VBA in ACAD be the same VBA say in
Microsoft Word so that if you learn how to
customize in one app.... you will know how to do
it in ALL apps?

I am just trying to understand how VBA will impact
us.

RJolt

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Dec 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/12/98
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VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. Yes, it's the same in AutoCAD as it is
in Word, Visio, etc. Only the program model changes. Even Visual Basic the
development system uses the same commands and syntax, etc. There's also
Visual Basic Script which is a subset of the language used in web pages, the
Windows Scripting Host, and some programs use it as a macro language. For
the most part, it's the all the same since it's coming from one source
(Microsoft).

LISP and script files will be around for some time but VB is THE language
now, at least for Windows apps.


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John Morris

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Dec 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/14/98
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>VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. Yes, it's the same in AutoCAD as it is
>in Word, Visio, etc. Only the program model changes. Even Visual Basic the
>development system uses the same commands and syntax, etc. There's also
>Visual Basic Script which is a subset of the language used in web pages, the
>Windows Scripting Host, and some programs use it as a macro language. For
>the most part, it's the all the same since it's coming from one source
>(Microsoft).
>
>LISP and script files will be around for some time but VB is THE language
>now, at least for Windows apps.

Well... that's what I thought VBA was doing to the
scene. <G>

So.... ideally... if you learn how to customize
Acad with VBA... then you would know how to
customize ANY windows app with VBA such as Excel?

RJolt

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Dec 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/14/98
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>So.... ideally... if you learn how to customize
>Acad with VBA... then you would know how to
>customize ANY windows app with VBA such as Excel?

Well, as far as knowing the common language, yes. VBA will be exactly the
same but you'll still need to learn how to use the object model of the
application. Take a look at http://www.inquiry.com/objects/index.html to see
some of the products using VBA and how they use it.

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