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Any of the Vb form can be cleared from the screen by clicking the close button in the top right-hand corner of the window.

To redisplay the toolbox, Project explorer window, properties window or form layout window. Click at the appropriate option in the view menu; to redisplay form1 and form designer window, double click form1 in the project explorer window( or click on form1 and then on the view object button).

The VB windows can also be moved by dragging their title bars or resized by dragging their corners or edges. The maximise button on the form designer window expands the window to fill the remaining space in the main window.

Take note
If you close the main window, the entire VB application will be closed down, including all associated windows. If youa have changed anything in the current project, you will be given the opportunity to save it.

Properties window

Each Form, and each control on a form, has a set of properties. These determine the appearance of the form or controls and the way it behaves. A form has properties that specify how big it is and where it is on the screen, whether it is visible when the application starts, whether it has Minimise and Maximise buttons, and so on. Most controls have a large number of properties, some of which are similar to those of forms. For instance, a command button has the same size and position as a  form but also includes properties to determine which key can be used to activate it. Each type of control has a different set of properties. For each control, you can change the settings of individual properties ( so all command buttons have the same properties but different settings)

The properties window displays the properties of the selected form or control, and allows you to change their settings. Some of the more important properties are described later in this tutorial.

Take note

Some properties can also be changed more simply; for instance. the size or position of a form can be altered by dragging the object or its borders


Form Layout window

The form layout window helps you determine the initial positions of the form on the screen when the application is run ( Not available in VB 4.0)

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Project Explorer window

For each window in your final application there are corresponding VB form, and each form has its on file on disk. Usually, there is also at least one file containing the program code for the application and if your forms use any third-party tools, these tools will be held in aditional files. All these files go together to make up a project from which the application is built.
The project explorer windo lists the project files. You can add existing files to a project or removes files. A file can be partof more than one project: for example, you may use the same window in two independent app. Removing a file from a project does not affect the file itself; it is still intact on disk.

Form1 and Form Designer window

A visual Basic application usually consists of one or more windows. At the design, stage, these windows are called forms. To start u off, VB supplies a sinfle form, called form1. This form will be renamed and resized when you begin to develop the application: other forms will be added as required. For VB 6.0, the forms are held in the form designer window.

Take note
It is possible to create an application
that has no form at all: for example,
an application to display a reminder
at a specific time. In such cases, you need to delete form1.
You will see how later in these lesson>

Toolbox

Any windows contains a number of different objects: command buttons, text boxes, labels and so on. These are called controls. When you are creating a window within VB, these controls can be added by dragging them from the toolbox. The pointer icon in the top left corner of the toolbox is used for selecting the existing controls so that they can be moved, resized or changed in some other way.
The toolbox controls are described in detail later in this lesson.

Take note

The controls included in the toolbox
depend on the version of VB u're using and
the 'ActiveX' controls that have been selected


Tip
A large number of other controls are supplied with Visual basic but not
included on the toolbox initially. You can add these using the components option in the Project menu. You can also change the way the toolbox is organised by moving controls onto tabs other than general
You can add these using

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Visual Basic Windows

The Visual Basic windows is confusing when you first see it. The main Visual Basic windows contains a number of other windows. Initially, six of these are open; others will pop up as you develop ur application.\

NOTE
Four of the windows are 'docked' on the side of the main window when you first come into Visual Basic. Any of them can be made 'float' by dragging the title bar into the middle of the screen. They can be re sized .


Main Window
The main window contains all the element u would expect to in a windows application.

1. The title bar contains the name of your current initially (Project 1) and the visual buttons for minimising maximising and closing the window.

2. The VB menu bar includes drop down menus . Many of the options in these menus are described later in this tutorial.

3. The toolbar contains a number of icons that provide shortcuts to the most frequently used Visual Basic Operations. On the right of the toolbar, two sets of figures provide size and position information about any selected Visual Basic element (Details in later lessons).

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The New Project window of Visual Basic.

As you enter Visual Basic 6.0. a new project windowis displayed. This dialog box effectively provides a menu for deciding what type of work u're going to do.
To create ur first application, double click on Standard EXE. The main Visual Basic windows is displayed.

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Starting the program
1. Click on the start button to display the start menu
2. Move the pointer to programs and Microsoft Visual basic 6.0
3. Click on the Visual Basic 6.0 option.

Alternatively, if you have created a visual basic folder, double click on Visula Basic 6.0 icon.

Installing Visual Basic

Visual Basic is installed in a similar way to most other Windows app. Load the CD and run the setup program as follows:
1 Click on the windows start button and the the run option
2 Type D:\setup in the run box and click OK
3 Follow the instructions as they appear on the screen.
At the end of the setup process, Visual Basic will add an opion to the program menu, leading to the main Visual basic program plus some subsidiary programs

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Take Note
If your CD is not drive D, replace D in the command with the drive letter.

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Tip
If u're short of HDD space u don't have to install the complete application: choose custom rather than Typical from the installation options and deselect those part of the system you do not need (they can always be added to the installation later by re running the the setup program. full installation of the enterprise edition requires 200 mb of disk space.

Tip
Create a Visual Basic folder and shortcut icon on the windows desktop. In explorer, open the windows start menu program folder and copy the microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 folder icon to the windows desktop folder (click on the Visual Basic 6.0 folder, hold down [Ctrl] and drag the folder onto 'Desktop').

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Starting Visual Basic

Visual Basic provides a sophisticated Windows programming environment that is easy to use yet capable of producing powerful programs. Since it's a system you can create a visible part of a self contained window application in a very short time. without the need to write any program code at all. You can then add short procedures for performing specific tasks, using an extended form of traditional BASIC programming language. This tutorial would show you how to create fully-fledged windows app, quickly an effectively.

Visual Basic editions

The latest version of VB comes in three different editions:

1. Learning edition - creates fully- functional windows applications using a set of standard tools
2. Professional edition - adds specialised tools, a report writer and Internet capability
3. Enterprise edition - includes tools for setting up client / server applications

This tutorial concentrates on the learning edition features, where are common to all three editions.


Windows version

Visual Basic 6.0 is supplied only as a 32-bit version and must therefor be run under windows 95 or later versions. App created with VB6.0 can be run only under these versions of windows; you will not be able to run ur app under 16-bit windows 3.1

Note
The VB cd contains a number of development tools plus an extensive help system that covers the whole of the microsoft Visual studio environment. You do not have to install everything

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