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[Jimbo]

I am working on a Gantt program and would like to solicit ideas for inclusion. I have allowed for an event cost and income to eventually display a comparison graph of some type but haven't decided what would be appropriate yet. I also want to include milestones (vertical line) such as holidays etc. I thought I lost my source code when I reformatted but found a copy at work <gasp>. This was originally intended to serve for work for project management but, as usual, they don't see past tomorrow. There are two small subforms 1) you provide a category name and 2)you provide the event name, start/end dates and cost/income if any. I have written in BASIC since...but VB is different from the old top-down programming flow. Ideas, suggestions??

Jimbo

[DoobieKeebler]

What's a Gantt program? I'll probably know exactly what you mean but I haven't heard that term before.
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[Jimbo]

A gantt chart displays bars to indicate when a task starts and ends. Many professionally developed ones indicate a critical path, those tasks that must be accomplished with a certain time frame. Tasks are broken down into logical building blocks such as planning, designing, purchasing lead times, fabrication, delivery and payment recovery. I want to make one that can be used for general things like household expenses and income or perhaps the devlopement of a software program. MaxVB's FAQ says I need an external source to store a picture or data and place a link to it here. I found one for $4.99 per year that allows 10 gigabytes with considerable transmission capacity per user. I have made a 71K JPG I can email for any who are interested in seeing it. The source code itself is not very large either as it is still a work in progress. I have made my email available for anyone to contact me or supply it here (if MaxVB permits) via these replies. A beta build of this program is 76K and will be sent on request.

Jimbo
P.S. program requires date/time picker OCX

[dougthomas]

Hi Jimbo,

You could always generate different views for the gantt. Like include Early Start, Float and the thing that *all* Project Managers want being the Cost processor showing the earned value over time. Then there's resourcing... and hammocks .... and load of other things. Think you've mapped out a career for youeself.

Best of luck
Regards
Doug
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