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Technical Help & Discussion => Website Design & Programming => Topic started by: DJ on April 23, 2007, 14:19

Title: Simple windows program (exe file?)
Post by: DJ on April 23, 2007, 14:19

Hi All,

I currently have a spreadsheet, that takes input as 4 characters and 6 digits and outputs a further 1 digit as a checkdigit.  This is used to ensure the entered data has the correct check digit.

I would like to convert this into a program - hopefully a small exe, that other people can use. Maybe in the future develop it as a web service / widget type program also.

Has anyone had any experiance of writing a small program like this for windows? Any pointers where to start would be great! Maybe I can use what I have already in Excel as a basis?

DJ

Title: Re: Simple windows program (exe file?)
Post by: sam on April 24, 2007, 11:49

umm not sure about you can make the excel work... you could possible create a macro to run in any version of excel. Not sure. A small program, well you could easily write something in fortran or BASIC. As a webservice do it in PHP or JS..  you will find these quite easy to pickup. What level of programming experience do you have? I think this will be quite an easy program todo in PHP and then you can have your webservice.

Title: Re: Simple windows program (exe file?)
Post by: DJ on April 24, 2007, 12:00

Yeah good idea, might look into converting it to PHP. Have done PHP web sites before, but not much programming.

Programmed in Java, C# before.

Thanks for the idea Sam, will look into it soon.

DJ

Title: Re: Simple windows program (exe file?)
Post by: sam on April 24, 2007, 16:16

yeah a basic php book would do the trick easily