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- From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: VB + Fortran
- Message-ID: <714768285.3870@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 18:44:46 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- JULIO RODRIGUEZ BANGA (JRBANGA@poppy.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
- : I'd like to create GUIs to some Fortran 77 scientific programs (data
- : input/output, graphics, etc.).
- : I was thinking about using MS Visual Basic to create the front end, and MS
- : Fortran to compile the Fortran kernel.
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- Sounds a splendid way of doing it. We'er hooked on VB here, using C
- DLLs to do all the hard word, and VB for the front-end. As long as MS
- Fortran will build DLLs then you have no problem calling them from VB.
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