Hi. i was wondering if anyone would beable to help me a bit.

in college yesterday we had to make a program to convert decimal numbers in to 8 bit binery. we werent aloud to use any premade functions to do this.

the way i decided to do it was this:
i had 8 of these statments, each one covering the next part of the binery (64,32,16,8,4,2,1)

it all worked fine and i got the grade. then i tryed to compress the code in to one loop, so i dint have 8 if statments, just one that would jump forward to the next number

unfortunatly i cant get it to work. im not shure what im doing wrong. im not getting any strange errors, the program runs fine. it just wont update the text boxes with the answers proply. i think my problem is that i dont fully understand how loops work yet and ive made a stupid mistake. i was wondering, if anyone would take a look at it and see if they can find what ive done wrong, to help pount me in the right direction?

this is only the 6th program ive made, so theres bound to be loads of problems

thanks for your time!
http://www.tentative-title.com/binery/Form1.frm
http://www.tentative-title.com/binery/Project1.vbp

    For i = 7 To 0 Step -1
        If number >= 2^i Then
            number = number - 2^i
        text1 = text1 & "1"
        else
            text1 = text1 & "0"
        End If
    Next i

2^7 = 128, 2^0 = 1
Note that if you don’t have “txt = txt & ” but have “txt = ”, you will overwrite the value of txt for each iteration.
(It is ‘binAry,’ not ‘binEry.’ Some teachers will ding you for things like that...)

This code does not need to modify the number variable:

for i = 0 to 7
if (number AND (2^(7-i))) <> 0 then
add "1"
else
add "0"
endif
next

Marco