Following are Links to programming websites that may be of interest. Some are product related, some educational, many a mix of both. If you know of links to sites that would be of interest to others, please send an e-mail. There are also files to download with source code for API projects, including code for the API tutorials presented here on the site. Our hope is that you folks will be willing to share code for your customization projects. The more resources we have available, the more powerful Visual CADD becomes for each of us.
Links
- An interesting page on Visual Basic CAD Programming using examples from Visual CADD, CADVANCE and AutoCAD. It's outdated, as the code is for VCADD 1.2, but it has some good info on the basics.
- Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page is a great place to start the long and arduous journey if you're contemplating learning how to program in Windows. Links, files, news --its got it all. There are some good articles for beginners.
- C++ types will find a wealth of information at The Visual C++ Developer's Journal.
File Downloads
- Try the Visual Cadd Developer's Kit to find a ton of programming examples, including complete API help files, 16 & 32 bit versions of samples for C++, Visual Basic and Delphi, and various support headers (C++) and modules (VB, Delphi). All these files have been updated in 1997. If you're downloading our language specific tutorial files listed below, the necessary headers and modules will be included. But you'll still want to look at the coding examples herein --they'll probably save you a bunch of time on your own projects!
- Visual Basic programmers know that certain calls are available to them only in a "BP" mode. And if they've used the API for very long, they also know that several key BP calls that should be there are missing. Jeff Winter has found them, and this zip file will add a bunch of functionality to your programming efforts.
- This utility is a DLL that will call Visual Basic OLE DLL's from a Visual CADD script. It's the one we've been talking about in the Visual Basic tutorials, and is required to run those DLL's. Once unzipped open the ReadMe.doc file for full instructions. The zip file also includes the complete VC++ project related code that built OLECADD.DLL.
- The complete source code for the Visual Basic Tutorials that are offered here on the website. The zip file also includes the necessary VCADD support modules, so that you don't have to download them from the Developer's Kit (the API help file isn't included, however).
- The complete source code for the Visual C++Tutorials that are offered here on the website. The zip file also includes the necessary VCADD header files, so that you don't have to download them from the Developer's Kit (but again no API help file).
- If you've downloaded either of the zip files above with all the support files, and only need the API Help file to complete your setup, you can get it right here.
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