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Re: QBASIC Dashboard Program

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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank
In the off-season, a friend of mine and I came up with a system where we wrote all the data to 40 or so different text files in order, then overwrote the first one again every second or so, and so on. Then we used Macromedia Flash (much more suited to visualization) to read the files and display the data.
You can do it a lot easier than this Just put a Macromedia Flash ActiveX control on the form in VB (or Delphi, or any other environment that supports ActiveX). You can then set variables in the Flash movie directly. The Flash movie can interact with your program using the fscommand() function.