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
  • Hour 19.Toolbars and More Graphics
    • Preparing for the Toolbar
    • The Image List Control
    • Finalizing the Toolbar
    • The Line and Shape Controls
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Preparing for the Toolbar

The tools that appear on your Toolbox window are called intrinsic controls. You can add additional controls to the toolbar. As a matter of fact, you can obtain controls from sources other than Microsoft because many people create controls for Visual Basic.

Visual Basic's Professional and Enterprise Edition users can take advantage of an extra control that comes with Visual Basic: the Toolbar control. It comes in a collection of other controls named the Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0. To add this set of controls to your toolbar, select Project | Components (Ctrl+T) to display the Components dialog box (see Figure 19.1).

Figure 19.1 Adding more tools to the toolbox with the Components dialog box.

Scroll the box down to the Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 entry and check it. Click OK. When you look at the Toolbox window again, you'll see new controls on the toolbox. Figure 19.2 labels these tools.

Figure 19.2 The Common Controls package of tools gives you additional power.

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