[kasperl]

I’m looking for people who are willing to help me write a program in Delphi 6, I already made the program in QuickBasic, but that's in MS-DOS, and has it's own problems.

the program at hand is a program to help people with schoolwork, basically it asks the user a question, and the user has to answer it. mostly I use it to study vocabulary, but it's applicable for all subjects.

I’m looking for three groups of people:
1) beta testers, (off course)
2) translators, people who can translate the program to their own language, and who can help me give support in that language.
3) programmers, I doubt I’ll need much help, but I can always get stuck, so an extra pair of eye's might come in handy.

I haven't got any code in Delphi, yet, I’m just getting started, but I have a working MS-DOS program, I translated in to English rather quickly, so don't expect a error-free result. the coding itself should be fine, but no guarantees. I haven't got any good questions, but I included a bunch of files people used for English vocabulary, so you can practice your Dutch .

here is the link to the English version:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~kasper-loopstra/vakwerke.zip

and here's the Dutch one, including a lot more files:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~kasper-loopstra/floppie.zip

post with the regular comments and questions.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Sorry, but I must insist that you stick with QBasic. I've been playing in that, and wrote a quaint little program that is basically a small jukebox, but it quits after playing a tune, and you have to start it up again.

[kasperl]

why should i stick with basic? it's a nice starting point, but since it's DOS, i can't use multiple fonts, so i can't use it for Greek, and i really need that, and it won't run on XP, NT or 2000, so half my class is unable to use it.

[kasperl]

ok, if you can't get it working, it's becuase i forgot to give some explaniation.

the file vw95e.exe is the program, the file vwi95e.exe is the input utility.

to install the program, throw everything in a dir, and type the MS-DOS path in the setup.txt file, not forgetting the last \ .

that way thins "should'" work, otherwise, post the bugreport.

[kasperl]

anyone???


ah well, nobody's interested.

too bad, it looked like a nice start with programming.

[GT-Keravnos]

I am Greek, so what can I help you with.

My programming knowledge is rather limited, but I KNOW Greek. Just hadn't seen that till now.

[kasperl]

do you know any greek fonts who support the "spiriti" from ancient greek? i mean those symbols who tell you when to speak an h and when not.

i find it kinda annoying to have to use askerisks every time.

[GT-Keravnos]

http://www.magenta.gr/gr/uc5/gr_unicode_5.htm

for the latest commercial version of FULL "spirits"

http://www.magenta.gr/ftp/demo/polw20b_setup_gr.exe

for the word 2002 demo of said "spirits.

WWW.magenta.gr

for the full monty

anything else ask away...

[kasperl]

i haven't got much work to be done yet really, especially since i only just started in delphi, i just wanted to see what your opinions were on this. if you would try out the program i made in basic i'd like that a lot.
also if anyone would like to try to use the input utility to make some trivia questions or just some language files, i would be very happy.

[GT-Keravnos]

I have no problem trying your problem in Q  basic. Problem is I am NOT a programmer, not even good at this, and thus, I don't know if I can help you. I can provide assistance wherever Greek is concerned but that is just as far as I can go. I am not unwilling , just unable to help you otherwise

[kasperl]

Originally posted by GT-Keravnos
I have no problem trying your problem in Q  basic. Problem is I am NOT a programmer, not even good at this, and thus, I don't know if I can help you. I can provide assistance wherever Greek is concerned but that is just as far as I can go. I am not unwilling , just unable to help you otherwise

ok, no problem, as for the Greek part, could you please link directly to the font file? i can only undertsand a bit of ancient greek, and i don't have a clue what that website says.

other then that, you can't do much now, but i'll bump this thread the moment i've got more work done.


any other forum members interested in this? i am actualy looking for a programmers opinion on this.

if anyone wants to see the source, i'll post it in a minute.

[kasperl]

here is the source for the main program:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~kasper-loopstra/english.bas

and here is the input utility:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~kasper-loopstra/invoere.bas


these are text files with a different extention, and if you use visual basic and try toopen it with that it won't work. to view this, you need notepad, to run it Qbasic or Quickbasic, if you can't find them, do a google search.

WARNING: view this code only at your own risk, it's a gigantic mess, because when i started i didn't know how to do subroutines nor good loop structures, for those who know programming, this means enough. i used goto a lot.