Re: Developing PBEM in VB

From: "Johan van Niekerk" <johanvn@mail.petech.ac.za>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

I have the enterprize edition and wrote that part first. Just go into your
projects components list(or references) and include the MAPI tools. Then you
simply put a mapisession control and a mapimessages control onto a form, cut
and paste the code form the help files and Viola, with a bit of coding you
program will automatically download messages, you can read them into an
access db, and automatically send reply's.

A great ng, for help with these issues is comp.lang.basic.visual.database

Dialing up every hour should be easy, using a timercontrol, and the
communications controls

Hope this helps
  Johan

Michael Hodgson wrote in message ...
>On 23 Oct 1998, EricSum wrote:
>
>> >Anybody started a PBEM game in VB? strategy in particular and version 5
of
>> >VB in particular.
>>
>> The space opera game that I am currently coding is written in VB 5.0. The
>> package comes with some great tools for interacting with databases, and
of
>> course BASIC has always been great for working with strings and
outputting text
>> to files. Since the host program does not have to be distributed, the
minor hit
>> on speed that you get using VB instead of C or C++ is not really a
factor.
>>
>
>I've just started looking at a version of Galaxy in VB, running on the
>front end of an access database.  I would agree with what Eric says, and
>if speed is not an issue it's an excellent choice.  I would prefer java so
>that if any other people wanted to run the game, they wouldn't be tied to
>windows, but unfortunately the easy of VB programming won me over :)
>
>One question I do have is how to automate things using VB/Windows.
>Galaxy is gretly enhanced by turn checking, and I would like to make this
>a feature of my game.  I would also like to make the game runnable from a
>decktop PC, connected to the internet only via a Modem, as I feel there
>are many budding GM's out there who do not have access to machine with
>'live' net connections all the time.  Idealy, it would dial-up say once an
>hour, retrive and filter it's mail.  Process or check it and then mail out
>the results...
>
>This does not seem like it should be a difficult problem, but I need the
>equivalent of a cron demon, under a windows environment...
>Am I going to have to code this in myself, or does such a thing exist?
>Any hints/tips appreciated.
>
>-Michael
>

References

Developing PBEM in VB
"Jake B" <jakeB@iName.com>
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Developing PBEM in VB
ericsum@aol.com (EricSum)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Developing PBEM in VB
Michael Hodgson <mkh100@york.ac.uk>
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000