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
  • Part V:Sprucing Up Programs
  • Hour 17.Menus and Visual Basic
    • The Menu Editor
    • Adding an Application's Menu Bar
    • Naming Menu Options
    • Adding Pull-Down Menu Options
    • Menu Extras
    • Connecting Menus to Event Procedures
    • Copying Menus Between Projects
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. True or false: Menu items are controls that have properties.
2. True or false: More than one form can have a menu within a single application.
3. What is the most common menu-naming prefix?
4. What would be a good name for an Edit | Select | All menu option?
5. How does the Menu Editor know that a submenu option is part of a menu bar option?
6. True or false: You can add a menu shortcut keystroke to a menu option that produces a submenu.
7. What menu option should all applications use?
8. Why should programmers shy away from using unconventional menu options such as File | Quit?
9. What is the event property used in menu processing?
10. Which property must your application change in order to change the check mark setting on a menu option?

Exercises

1. Create a new project with the following menu bar items: Write, Read, and Listen. Create a Write submenu with these options: Keyboard, Pencil, and Pen. Create a Read submenu with these options: Screen, Book, and Magazine. Create a Listen submenu with these options: Radio and Television.
2. Add menus to the Atm.vbp project that appears in VB's samples folder. On the opening form, add a File | Exit option as well as a Language menu bar option with these pull-down checked choices: English, Italiano, Espanol, Francais, and Deutsch. Don't use special foreign characters unless you can access them easily from your keyboard, and you are used to using them. When the user first starts the application, put the check mark next to the English option but move the check mark (or let the user select a different option) when the user selects an option or clicks the corresponding command button. Add one more menu to the Welcome form that includes a File | Exit option. Unlike the Welcome form's OK button, make sure the menu's File | Exit command on that form completely terminates the application.

Share This