Use the VT3 with Visual Basic 6

[CvMarty]

I am flirting to buy the VT3 for developing my software to support it but I develop in VB6. Is there any way and how can this be done ? Is there any wrapper to do this? I want to playback videos back to back and also add automatic titles on the videos (like titles on video clips). I use Mpeg2 files for playback.

[vojtek11]

Forget it man. There is no way to do that. I was trying for quite some time and failed.

Using TScript from Your own application is pretty easy. But it doesn't work.

Check out "Remote TScript" from Newtek's SDK package.

To use a TScript You need to locate a handle to main GUI application or a DDR or switcher - depending what You want to control and send plain text to it (in TScript format). You don't need any libraries to link, no controls, no header files. You can do that in plain VB code. It would be great if it worked.

I was trying to do that with VC++ and it seems that most of the commands from remote applicatios are completely ignored by VT[3] windows. Only simple commands work ("Auto", "Take", etc.).

Secondary problem is total instability of VT[3] GUI and/or winrtme driver after doing remote TScripting. Even if I send plain commands that works - with VT[3] GUI minimized, I always get "General Failure Error" when I get back to VT[3] GUI. That requires a restart usually.

Finally I started using normal SDK - although it's very simple, without single shred of documentation and contains a lot of errors as well, it works little better, those errors are easier to work-around and - Thanks God! - doesn't require unstable VT[3] GUI to work.