Sockratease,
Visual basic is not going to be a good choice for a fractal generator. It's an interpreted langugage, and not nearly "close enough to the machine." There's far too much junk between you and the CPU that's actually doing the calculations required to render a fractal.
I'm guessing that a visual basic program would take hundreds of times longer - if not thousands of times longer - than a compiled language like C/C++/Pascal/Fortran to compute a fractal.
Back in the 80's when I wrote my first fractal generating program, I hand-wrote the calculation code in assembly language. That let me squeeze every clock cycle I could out of my code.
These days compilers are good enough, and the processors complicated enough, that it's quite hard to write assembler code that's faster than well-crafted C.
You might want to talk to a developer and ask them to write you some fractal calculation code and package it as a DLL for you. You could then use it in VB and build buttons and forms to your heart's content, while still getting good performance.
I mostly develop for the Macintosh so building DLLs not something I could do easily. I've done a couple of stints of development for Windows, but don't have the current tools and would have to re-remember how to use them if I did.
Duncan C
Good Advice!
But I am just trying to learn VB since I got it free...
Fortran is still around? I learned in Fortran III Punching Cards!
Then took a couple decades off...
I still can't adjust to the idea that computers are not for programming anymore!
You have to BUY a programming language???
SHEESH!
But yeah...
I'm not trying to make anything groundbreaking. I'll be happy to just draw the Mandlebrot set at one pre set angle and zoom!
Time lately has been really tight.
Getting back on track now...
I hope to see be here more often!
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