Rkhoury91's Weblog

Polishing

Richard Khoury — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:36:05 +0000

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

Richard Khoury — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:33:54 +0000

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

Richard Khoury — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:16:08 +0000

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)

Richard Khoury — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:12:17 +0000

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

Richard Khoury — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:27:02 +0000

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

Richard Khoury — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:27:13 +0000

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

Check if the files were already in the base directory
If not then it would check the computer to find all its CD-ROM drives
Check these drives for my program CD
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

Richard Khoury — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:07:19 +0000

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.

Playing Flash Animations

Richard Khoury — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:51:45 +0000

I consulted a class member on wether the only way to play a flash file was the way i had done and he told me that i could play them simply by navigating the web browser to the flash file. This was great news because i could not use a variable file path in HTML code.

More File Path

Richard Khoury — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:46:57 +0000

After testing the file Base directory in a published program i realised that the Base directory function can still be used. I used a message box to display the base directory and got a file path.

By storing all my files in this folder i am able to use the base directory function.

File Path Base

Richard Khoury — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:38:16 +0000

All of the files in my program, such as my Database and Videos do not have a fixed file path. Rather i decided to use the System.appDdomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory function in VB .Net. This sets the file path to whatever driver the program is being played from and follows through to the debug folder in My Project.

However after our practicle lesson in class, i learnt that the base directory changes when we publish the program and we no longer have a debug folder. I am unable to use a variable file path.