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
  • Hour 18.The Graphic Image Controls
    • The Image Control
    • The Picture Box Control
    • Animating Pictures
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. Which two controls display graphic images?

2. Which control is more efficient?

3. What happens if you load a picture into an Image control and the Image control is too small to hold the entire picture (assume default property values)?

4. What happens if you load a picture into a Picture Box control and the Picture Box control is too small to hold the entire picture (assume default property values)?

5. What happens if you load a picture into an Image control and the Image control is larger than the picture (assume default property values)?

6. What happens if you load a picture into a Picture Box control and the Picture Box control is larger than the picture (assume default property values)?

7. What is wrong with this assignment (assume that the filename and pathname are correct)?

   imgFace.Picture = "C:\DataPics\Flower.Ico"
   

8. Which control helps control animation effects?

9. True or false: A static variable is a global variable because its value doesn't change from a procedure's termination to the same procedure's next execution.

10. When does a static variable first get initialized?

Exercises

1. Add a command button to the animation application so that the animation doesn't begin until you click the button. The solution to this exercise might not be obvious at first. (Hint: Consider activating the Timer control in the command button's event procedure.) Put a happy face on the command button and hide the command button so it disappears when the application starts animating the happy face.
2. Change the animation application so that the happy face bounces off all four sides of the Form window.

Share This