Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours
- 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
- 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
Summary
Message boxes display output, and input boxes get input. The message and input boxes offer ways for your programs to request information that regular controls can't handle. Use controls to display and get data values that are always needed. Use message and input boxes to display messages and get answers that the program needs in special cases, such as for error conditions and exception handling.
The next hour explains how to test the return values from this hour's functions as well as additional operators with which your applications can make decisions.
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