Chris's Event Programming with Visual Basic course.

Contents

Introduction Conventions Starting VB3 The development environment Help Documentation The "On-line" Tutorial Starting a new project Making an application Working with Forms Modal forms Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Building the interface Menus

Tool Bars & Control Arrays Building a Control Array Z Order Custom controls Handling Data Input Boxes Message Boxes Error Trapping The Data Manager Data Aware Components Debugging code Compilation of code

Custom controls
These are commonly bought in as third party add -ins to VB3 and need to be attached to a project at design time by adding a file containing the control (in VB3 a .VBX file). Controls can be added to the default set of controls in the tool box by adding them to the autoload.mak file (in VB3). In VB4, 5 and VB6 custom controls are added into the project from the add control or add library interfaces. If controls are available, double-clicking on the tool box window opens up a dialogue to add new controls to the current project. The controls which are used in a project can be examined by opening up the .PRJ file with the windows wordpad. They are all listed complete with application path and version numbers.
 

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