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
  • 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
    • Introducing Printing
    • Preparing the User for Printing
    • Introducing the Printer Object
    • The Print Method
    • Starting to Print
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Workshop

The quiz questions and exercises are provided for your further understanding. See Appendix B for the answers.

Quiz

1. Why does Visual Basic printer output not go immediately to a printer?

2. What happens if the printer isn't online when the user prints something?

3. What is the difference between the Printer object and the Print method?

4. How can you specify the number of output copies to print?

5. True or false: You can add the Printer object to the toolbox.

6. How many spaces does a print zone contain?

7. Why do you sometimes need to use the ASCII-based Chr() function when printing?

8. What's the output from the following code?

   Printer.Print "1";
   Printer.Print "2"
   

9. True or false: Using Tab(14) after each variable does the same thing as putting a comma after each variable printed.

10. True or false: You can apply the Print method to a form.

Exercises

1. Write the Print method that prints a Spanish Ñ (with a tilde) on the printer.
2. Write a program that prints ASCII values 32 through 255 on paper when the user clicks a command button.
3. Modify the book publisher application from Hour 15, "Visual Basic Database Basics," to print on paper the current book's title and year when the user clicks a Print command button.

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