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Chapter 2 of the Business Programming document covers Visual Basic, focusing on creating Windows applications using a GUI, and the importance of events in controlling program execution. It outlines the development process, including designing interfaces, recognizing events, and writing event procedures, as well as detailing various controls like text boxes, buttons, and labels. Additionally, it explains properties, tab order, and the steps to create a Visual Basic program, emphasizing the significance of event handling in programming.

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Business programming chapter 2

Chapter 2 of the Business Programming document covers Visual Basic, focusing on creating Windows applications using a GUI, and the importance of events in controlling program execution. It outlines the development process, including designing interfaces, recognizing events, and writing event procedures, as well as detailing various controls like text boxes, buttons, and labels. Additionally, it explains properties, tab order, and the steps to create a Visual Basic program, emphasizing the significance of event handling in programming.

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Business programming chapter 2

Visual Basic, Controls, and Events

Visual Basic
• Language used to create Windows applications.
• Provides a Graphical User Interface or GUI.
• The instructions executed in the program is controlled by events.

How You Develop a Visual Basic Program


• Design the Interface for the user.
• Determine which events the controls on the window should recognize.
• Write the event procedures for those events.

4 Ways to Place a Control from the Toolbox onto the Form Designer
• Double-click
• Drag and Drop
• Click, Point, and Click
• Click, Point, and Drag

Text Box Control


• Used for input and output
• When used for output, Read Only property is set to True

Some Often Used Properties


• Text
• Autosize
• Font.Name
• Font.Size
• ForeColor
• BackColor
• ReadOnly

Setting Properties
• Click on property name in left column.
• Enter its setting into right column by typing or selecting from options displayed
via a button or ellipsis
Button Control
• The caption on the button should indicate the effect of clicking on the button.
Label Control
• Used to identify the contents of a text box
• Text property specifies caption
• By default, label automatically resizes to accommodate caption on one line.
• When the AutoSize property is set to False, label can be resized manually.
AutoSize is used primarily to obtain a multi-rowed label.

List Box Control


• Initially used to display several pieces of output.
• In Chapter 4 used to select from a list.

The Name Property


• Used by the programmer to refer to a control in code
• Setting for Name property near top of Properties window
• Use appropriate 3-character naming prefix
• Use descriptive names

Fonts
• Proportional width fonts, such as Microsoft Sans Serif, use less space for “I” than
for “W”.
• Fixed-width fonts, such as Courier New, take up the same amount of space for
each character.
• Fixed-width fonts are used for tables

Auto Hide
• Hides Toolbox when not in use
• Vertical push pin icon indicates auto hide is disabled.
• Click the push pin to make it horizontal and enable auto hide.

Tab Order
• The tab indices determine the order in which controls receive the focus during
tabbing.
• The control whose TabIndex property is set to 0 has the focus when the program
begins.

Event
• An event is an action, such as the user clicking on a button
• Usually, nothing happens in a Visual Basic program until the user does something
and raises an event.
• What happens is determined by statements inside the event procedure

Focus
• When you click on a text box, a cursor appears in the text box, and you can type
into the text box.
• Such a text box is said to have the focus.
• If you click on another text box, the first text box loses the focus and the second
text box receives the focus

Sample Statements
• txtBox.ForeColor = Color.Red
• txtBox.Visible = True
• txtBox.Text = "Hello World"

Examples of Events
• btnShow.Click
• txtBox.TextChanged
• txtBox.Leave

The Three Steps in Creating a Visual Basic Program


1. Create the interface; that is, generate, position, and size the objects.
2. Set properties; that is, configure the appearance of the objects.
3. Write the code that executes when events occur

Display Events for a Control


• Select the control
• Click on the Events button in the Properties window

Create an Outline for an Event Procedure


• Double-click on a control or
• Select a control, click on the Events button in the Properties window, and double-
click on an event (We nearly always use the first method.)

Sample Form
Double-click on txtFirst to create the outline for the Code Editor
Sample Form
Double-click on btnRed to return to Code Editor and add the outline of an event
procedure.

Event Procedure txtFirst.Leave


• Select txtFirst on the form
• Click on the Events button in the Properties window
• Double-click on Leave

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