Visual Basic 4.0: Intermediate Skills

Synopsis
Visual Basic 4.0: Intermediate Skills explains some of the more powerful features of Visual Basic. Users expand their programming skills while learning how to use Visual Basic to interface with the screen the keyboard Windows and the file-system.

Audience
This course is for Windows software developers with a fundamental knowledge of Visual Basic.

Time
7 hours

Product Code: VB4TC2

After completing Intermediate Skills the user should be able to:

Use graphic methods to create impressive graphical programs

Use the grid control to create tables with both text and graphics

Send information to the screen and the printer

Interface with the Windows in Visual Basic programs

Interface with the keyboard in Visual Basic programs

Access the file-system in Visual Basic programs

Read and write to files in Visual Basic programs

Graphics Methods
Shows how to use the graphics methods of Visual Basic to create impressive graphical programs.

Drawing lines and boxes with the Line method

Drawing circles ellipses and arcs with the Circle method

Using the AutoRedraw property and Form_Paint() procedure

The Grid Control
Demonstrates how to use the grid control to display text in rows and columns in a Visual Basic program.

Adding the grid control OCX to the toolbox

Changing cell width and height

Filling the cells of the grid

Displaying and Printing
Teaches how to display and print information display text in different fonts format numbers dates and times and send text and graphics to the printer.

Using different fonts and styles

Using the Print and Cls methods

Placing text at a specific location

Formatting numbers dates and times

Using the PrintForm method to send data to the printer

Interfacing with Windows
Demonstrates how to use Windows features like the Clipboard and idle loops within Visual Basic programs.

Using the Windows clipboard to transfer data

Using idle time while a program executes to switch to another program

Using the DoEvents() function

The Keyboard
Explains how programs can respond to keyboard events how to detect whether a key was pressed or released and how to manipulate the data that comes from the keyboard.

Using the keyboard events

Detecting a pressed or released key

Intercepting keys

Setting the Cancel property

Setting the Tab order

File-System Controls
Demonstrates how to use the file-system controls to select files in a Visual Basic program.

Using the Drive list box

Using the Directory list box

Using the File list box

Accessing Files
Shows how to create files how to read data from files and how to write data to files in a Visual Basic program.

Accessing random access files

Accessing sequential access files

Accessing binary access files

Declaring a user-defined type

This course is distributed with the following items:

the Visual Basic Glossary

sample Visual Basic project and form files

sample Visual Basic executable programs

a file containing the text of practices and exercises

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