Polishing

I have finished my program and it is full functional. I am going through the program to find any kinks or minor errors which can be improved. Any minor adjustment have to be made now, before i publish the program.

Help Screens

I have created my help screens for the program. I have replaced the profile details on the right with navigation headings for the help screen which allows me to keep the navigation headings on the left for the whole program.

The text and pictures used in the help screens are part of a screen shot of MS Word. It was easier to type and edit the help in word and then screen shot it and place the picture in a picture box.

 The help screens work by making certain headings and picture boxes visible and not visible whe the user navigates through them. I did this because it is much more efficiant then creating six different forms

File Path Final problem

After testing the file path code i created earlier, i discovered that while the code works perfectly and the files get copied from the CD to the C Drive,  When the computer does copy them from the CD the files become read only. This means that the program will not be able to write a new profile to the database. The only other option is to have the user copy and paste the foder manually. This is a disappointment because a lot of effort and time was spent on generating this code.

Refined GUI (Again)

After the classes evaluation of my project i decided to make some improvements. This includes better heading for the navigation menu and more appealing buttons. An example is hown bellow.

Fellow Developers Evaluation

Yesterday in class i presented my program to my classmates, Fellow developers, and while they were not so formal, they did state a few points for improvement. My GUI still needs improvement. Below is a copy of the sound recording which the i recorded of the developers evalution.

Developers Evalutaion

File Path Problem # 3

After some more testing i discovered that there was no way of getting my files into the Base directory on each individual computer, the user would have to do this. To fixe this problem i researched any way of reading which Drive the program cd was in. I found a sit which gave the right solution but the wrong code. Basically i came up with some code which would

1. Check if the files were already in the base directory
2. If not then it would check the computer to find all its CD-ROM drives
3. Check these drives for my program CD 
4. Then copy all neccesary files from the CD to the base directory

The site i obtained my informaton from is http://www.a1vbcode.com/vbtip-55.asp

Checking High Scores

My shootout game was now working however when the program checked if the user achieved a highscore, i encountered a error. This error was not a VB error rather a Windows error.

This made it particularly hard to pin point why the error was occuring. After using single line stepping i realised the error was occuring because the program was trying to read from a row that was not there. Once i fixed this my shootout game was up and running.