Visual Basic

Monte Carlo Simulation code (written in Visual Basic)... 

There are many ways to take traditional SAS monospace font output and place it into Microsoft Word RTF files. The traditional way to get SAS output into Microsoft Word is to open a Word file and import the SAS LST output manually. Then you adjust the Word margins and font sizes to get your Word document to cooperate with the PAGESIZE and LINESIZE settings that you had in SAS. Some industrious individuals have written elaborate Visual Basic macros in Microsoft Word to import large numbers of SAS LST files automatically into Word. There are also several SAS users group papers on how to convert traditional SAS output into RTF output. Another approach to getting traditional ASCII SAS output into an RTF file is simply to wrap RTF commands around your ASCII SAS output. Here are the steps you would take to do this ... 

Some software applications that you may use for reporting clinical trial information have their own scripting languages. For Microsoft Office applications you can write powerful local utility functions with Visual Basic or VBScript. Other applications, such as Adobe Acrobat, may use JavaScript for utility functions. 

To process the LC/MS data more efficiently, we have automated this deconvolution functionality using a Visual Basic macro (termed AutoME or Automated Maximum... 

When embedded in decision support systems (usually in a Windows environment), LP solvers typically receive input data from a program written in C or Visual Basic and are often in the form of dynamic link libraries (DLLs). Most of today s LP solvers are available as DLLs. 

Scatter search has been implemented in software called OPTQUEST (see www.opttek.com). OPTQUEST is available as a callable library written in C, which can be invoked from any C program, or as a dynamic linked library (DLL), which can be called from a variety of languages including C, Visual Basic, and Java. The callable library consists of a set of functions that (1) input the problem size and data, (2) set options and tolerances, (3) perform steps 1 through 3 to create an initial reference set, (4) retrieve a trial solution from OPTQUEST to be input to the improvement method, and (5) input the solution resulting from the improvement method back into OPTQUEST, which uses it as the input to step 7 of the scatter search protocol. The improvement method is provided by the user. We use the term improvement loosely here because the user can simply provide an evaluation of the objective and constraint functions. 

Fortran, C/C++, Visual Basic, or Delphi. The user provides the model coded as a corresponding subroutine or function. 

On a small scale, pluggable user-interface widgets form components. Several such kits come with visual builders, such as Visual Basic, which help you plug the components together. Kits also may extend to small parts outside the user interface domain (for example, VisualAge and JavaBeans). These components all work within one executable program. 

Excel does not provide functions for the factor analysis of matrices. Further, Excel does not support iterative processes. Consequently, there are no Excel examples in Chapter 5, Model-Free Analyses. There are vast numbers of free add-ins available on the internet, e.g. for the Singular Value Decomposition. Alternatively, it is possible to write Visual Basic programs for the task and link them to Excel. We strongly believe that such algorithms are much better written in Matlab and decided not to include such options in our Excel collection. 

My colleague Todd wrote a Visual Basic application that selected a random word in hisMerriam-Webster Dictionary. His ten random words reminded him of a brilliant mystery novel ... 

Calculations using several standard calculation functions within one formula or using macros also have to be validated. Macros generated with Excel are a small, self-written software using Visual Basic. Validation of macros should follow the general validation approach for software. Reduction in the extent of validation might be possible. 

We have developed a new process to improve the efficiency of sample reanalysis. This process includes four steps data review, replating, reanalysis, and data alignment. We have also generated an Excel template, a Gilson s Unipoint protocol, and an in-house visual basic program to automate the process. 

The software for the string synthesis technique is written in visual basic and the data appear in Microsoft Excel sheets. This software can be downloaded via the Internet from http //szerves.chem.elte.hu/furka by clicking on the title ExcelBook appearing on the lower part of the main page. This software is compatible with only those PC systems that have Excel installed. 

Pal, P., Ahammad, Z. and Bhattacharya, P. (2007) ARSEPPA a visual basic software tool for arsenic separation plant performance analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal, 129(1-3), 113-22. 

Overall, most of the requirements for a process spectrometer/analyzer are straightforward to implement, but they do require attention at the design level. Another important area, which is FTIR-specific, is the user interface and the need to provide for industry standard data communications. Standard software packages do exist for process instrumentation. For prototype development, and even for the front-end interface in a standalone mode of operation, software products, such as Microsoft s Visual Basic and National Instruments LabView, are also important instrumentation development tools. Note that National Instruments also provides important computer-based electronics and hardware that meet most of the computer interfacing, and system control and communications needs for modem instrumentation. 

Figure 6.18 The four main displays from the in-house Visual Basic interface program developed at Novartis Pharma. The chemists use this program to select their samples/racks from a central server and access chromatograms, spectra, and 3-dimensional maps displays. (Reprinted with permission from Richmond et al., 1999. Copyright 1999 Elsevier.)...

In applying these equations and Fig. 1.1, please note that you are applying a proven method that has been used over several decades as reliable data. Henceforth, whenever you need to know a gas viscosity, you ll know how to derive it by simply applying this method. You may also use these equations in a computer for easy and quick reference. See Chap. 9 for computer programming in Visual Basic. Applying programs such as these is simple and gives reliable, quick answers. 

On the CD supplied with this book you will find Visual Basic software for the program RefFlsh. PPK equilibrium K values are calculated for each component in the program RefFlsh. Reference is made in the text to key code lines of this program. 

Table 3.3 displays an actual tray design run of the Visual Basic program Tray 10. Prior to clicking on the Run Program button, form 1 data were input along with the default values previously shown. 

I encourage using vendor-recommended values for the packing factor F. These are readily available via a simple phone request to any vendor or supplier. When you run the supplied PPE program Absorb, a typical listing for one vendor s F value is given in the input side of the Visual Basic form. 

Figure 4.5 Three-phase horizontal separator Vessize program example rims (a) earlier DOS version, and (6) screen display from the current version in Visual Basic format.

Gas bubble in oil-phase separation. The following Visual Basic line code is copied from the program Vessize. 

Figure 4.7 Visual Basic code for another terminal velocity method.

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