Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book
  • What This Book Will Do for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Visual Basic in 24 Hours?
  • What You Need
  • Files on the Visual Basic Distribution CD-ROM
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Enough! Time Is Ticking!
  • Part I: Introducing Visual Basic
  • Hour 1. Visual Basic at Work
  • Hour 2.Analyzing Visual Basic Programs
  • Hour 3.Controls and Properties
  • Hour 4.Examining Labels, Buttons, and Text Boxes
  • Part II: Coding the Details
  • Hour 5.Putting Code into Visual Basic
  • Hour 6.Message and Input Boxes
  • Hour 7.Making Decisions
  • Hour 8.Visual Basic Looping
  • Part III:Putting Code to Work
  • Hour 9.Combining Code and Controls
  • Hour 10.List Boxes and Data Lists
  • Hour 11.Additional Controls
  • Hour 12.Dialog Box Basics
    • What the Common Dialog Box Does
    • Adding the Common Dialog Box Control
    • Generating Common Dialog Boxes
    • The Common Dialog Box Methods
    • Adding the File Dialog Boxes
    • The Color Dialog Box
    • The Font Dialog Box
    • The Printer Dialog Box
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Part IV:Programming with Data
  • Hour 13.Modular Programming
  • Hour 14.Built-In Functions Save Time
  • Hour 15.Visual Basic Database Basics
  • Hour 16.Printing with Visual Basic
  • Part V:Sprucing Up Programs
  • Hour 17.Menus and Visual Basic
  • Hour 18.The Graphic Image Controls
  • Hour 19.Toolbars and More Graphics
  • Hour 20.Writing Correct Applications
  • Part VI:Advancing Visual Basic Applications
  • Hour 21.Visual Basic and ActiveX
  • Hour 22.Object Basics
  • Hour 23.Distributing Your Applications
  • Hour 24.Online Visual Basic
  • Part VII:Appendixes
  • Appendix A.Operator Precedence
  • Appendix B.Answers
  • Appendix C.Using the CD-ROM

Adding the Common Dialog Box Control

Although the Common Dialog Box control is known as a standard control, the control doesn't appear on your toolbox until you add it. Perform these steps to add the Common Dialog Box control to your toolbox:

1. Select Project | Components (Ctrl+T is the equivalent shortcut key for this option) to display the Components dialog box shown in Figure 12.7.
   

   Figure 12.7 You can select additional tools to add to your Toolbox window.

2. Scroll to the control named Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0 and select it.
3. Click OK. The Common Dialog Box control will now appear at the end of your Toolbox window.
4. Double-click the Common Dialog Box control to add the control to your Form window.

You can add ActiveX controls to your Toolbox window. If a tool you need doesn't appear on the toolbox, that tool might appear as an ActiveX control in the Components dialog box or even as an add-on tool you can download from an online service.

When you add the Common Dialog Box control, you'll see several other controls listed in the Components dialog box. At any time you can add these other controls to your tool box if you think you can use their help. For example, you can add the Microsoft Calendar control if you need to display calendar information in a Visual Basic application. You can add any ActiveX control to your toolbox, and Visual Basic comes with several that you see when you display the Components dialog box.

Only after adding the control to your project's Toolbox window can you add the control to the project's forms. When you place the control on the form, the control doesn't look like any of the controls it becomes (see Figure 12.8) because you, through properties, determine what appearance the control will take and when the control will appear.

Figure 12.8 You can select additional tools to add to your Toolbox window.

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