Newbie Help

[marshallc]

First, let me say that someone wouldprofit in making a Intel Visual Fortran for Dummies because I would be one of the first to buy it Honestly, I think the last language I developed in was Turbo Basic and C/C++. When the Visual programs were introduced (Visual Basic and Visual C++), I was working as a system administrator and not a developer... so I missed the intro to how to make programs in Windows. Now, I'm working in a language that I was told in school would probably be extinct by the time I graduated. Boy, they were wrong I think I was working in Fortran 70 when in college, and it looks like things have changed in leaps and bounds since then. With that said, please bear with me. To me, all of you are the gurus. I'm the newbie. If there was a forum for newbies, I would be there posting messages left and right By the way, I did purchase Programming Windows/Fifth Edition. It's a little like Greek to me, but I'm trying to understand it. I also have the one and only book on Compaq Visual Fortran. If anyone has suggestions on what would help me get a better understanding of Visual Fortran (especially Intel Visual Fortran) and working with Win32 APIs, please reply back to this.

I'm working with an application in which the language was already pre-determined by a developer who wrote the code and is no longer here. When you know Basic and a little of C, it's difficult trying to pick-up a whole new language and learn it from the beginning in order to get a project done. In this case, taking another developer's code and migrating it to be compatible with the current operating system, Windows XP.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

"Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Developing Windows Applications" by Norman Lawrence. Highly recommended and quite suitable to Intel Visual Fortran as well.

But do you really need to do Win32 programming, or are you just looking for information on writing Fortran programs that happen to run on Windows? The latter is much simpler.

[marshallc]

Hi Steve,

I have the Compaq Visual Fortran book, but I think there are some "differences" between it and IVF. I have another post about my problems with a status bar not working right in IVF. The code used to create the status bar was taken from that book. It works great in CVF. In IVF, it's a whole different thing.

On your question about Win32 programming, I think the answer is "yes". I have an application that looks to be written in Microsoft Fortran ?? Anyhow, it needs to be "upgraded" to work in Windows XP. I am rewriting it using IVF (previously CVF) to make it compatible. From what I've read in the Compaq Visual Fortran and the samples that I've seen in the forum, it looks like I need to take the jump into Win32 programming. It's the way everything is being done and is going, right?

Chad

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I'm not aware of differences in techniques - I've ported a number of Win32 apps and all I've had to deal with is bugs in the old code that CVF didn't notice.

[marshallc]

You're right. There was something else happening. When I was in debug mode and stepping through the code, my cursor wasn't progressing through the program like it should and the watches were showing some really strange readings. I'm not sure what happened, but I went into properties, checked a few settings, clicked on apply and everything started to work right. Again, I have no idea what happened.