[orra]

> RAD Basic may offer compatibility too

It's an interesting question. It looks like TwinBASIC embraces the OLE/COM/ActiveX model as its native model. VARIANTS and BSTRs. This means advanced patterns like ObjPtr and StrPtr can work, assuming other compatibility is high.

I'm unsure about RAD Basic here, but a contentious thread of VBForums suggests it differs here.

Now, arguably ObjPtr and StrPtr aren't part of the semantics of VB6. Nonetheless, if you want compatibility with some real world code, it needs to work.

(I too have no connection with twinBASIC, except I'm a VB6 fan who is technologically impressed by it.)

[pcdoodle]

This would be huge. Last time I was out field deploying a camera system, customer wanted a custom PVM (Public Viewing Monitor) with a few tweaks, I spun up VB, added the VLC component that gets installed anytime you put VLC on windows. Wrote a few lines of code and cleaned up my tools and left.