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Basic Controls and Its Essence

The document discusses basic controls used in application development including buttons, text boxes, labels, check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, timers, and date time pickers. Controls allow user interaction and accomplishing tasks by clicking or typing. Buttons carry out commands, text boxes display and accept input, and labels display data.

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Basic Controls and Its Essence

The document discusses basic controls used in application development including buttons, text boxes, labels, check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, timers, and date time pickers. Controls allow user interaction and accomplishing tasks by clicking or typing. Buttons carry out commands, text boxes display and accept input, and labels display data.

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Basic Controls and its Essence

The controls or objects are the primary medium of the user's interaction with the
application system on which we design and develop. Generally, we use controls in our
application system that fits the needs of the application we design and develop in getting the
user inputs and displaying the corresponding output. The other controls provide us an access to
some application systems and process data or information as though the remote application
system is part of our program. The basic controls that we can use in our application system are
buttons, text box, label, check boxes, radio buttons, list box, and combo box. By clicking or
typing something on these controls, the user can accomplish their tasks.

A. Creating VB Application Using Button, Text box and Label

The function of Button is to carry out a command or action (event) as the user clicks it,
while the text box provides the area for input and output display in text format. This control use
to extract simple responses from the user or to invoke special functions on the form. Moreover,
the text boxes are commonly used to display and accept string and numeric data.

B. Using Check Boxes, Radio Buttons and Message Box

A message box is usually used for displaying messages to the user in a graphical user
interface (GUI) mode. Moreover, the check boxes are used when there are options of choices
that need more than one to choose. Meaning, the user has an option to check a many choices
as they want using the check box object place in the developed applicator in the radio button
object, the user can only select one option at a time.

C. The Timer Control

This control is used if part of our application is to check the computer system clock. One
of the popular examples of using this application is daily time record monitoring system of the
employees in and out of the company during working days which will be used in computing of
the employee's salary.

D. The DateTime Picker Control

This control is used in an application when the user wants to select current, previous and
future date. For example the user wants to select the date of her birthday, year she graduated,
and the expiration of her driver’s license and so on.

Controls or objects are the primary medium of the user's interaction with the
application system on which we design and develop. The basic controls that we can use in our
application system in this lesson are buttons, text box, label, check boxes, radio buttons, date
time picker, timer and picture box. By clicking or typing something on these controls, the user
can accomplish their tasks. Button is a control used to extract user simple response from the
system. Textbox is a tool commonly used to accept and display string and numeric data.

Prepared By: Ms. Eunice Joy Mandayo


Furthermore, Label is a tool primary applied for displaying of data which could be numeric or
string. Checkbox however is used when there are multiple selections involve and radio button is
applicable when there is a single selection involves. The picture box tool is used to hold when
we want to display image in our application. Date time picker control is used when we want to
put option for the user to select current, previous and future date. Additionally, the timer control
is used when part of our application is to get and check computer system clock.

COMPUTER SYSTEM - refer to the computer system where the Visual Studio is currently
installed and used.

SYSTEM CLOCK - refer to the current date and time of the computer system.

Prepared By: Ms. Eunice Joy Mandayo

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