Visual Basic 2005 - GUI Summary v2
Controls: Label, Textbox, Button, PictureBox, RadioButton, CheckBox, ListBox.
Containers: GroupBox.
Label - For fixed text. | |||
lbl.Text = | s | Sets text to s. | |
Textbox - Box containing one line of text. | |||
s = | tb.Text | Returns string in text box. | |
tb.Text = | s | Sets text to s. | |
tb.Focus() | Sets focus to this text box. | ||
tb.SelectAll() | Selects the text. | ||
tb.Clear() | Puts empty string in text box. | ||
Button | |||
btn.Enabled = | True / False | True enables, False disables button. | |
ListBox (p. 526) (Properties: SelectedItem, SelectedIndex, SelectionMode, Sorted) | |||
Me.lstbx.Items.Add(s) | Adds string s to ListBox lstbx. Also Items.Insert(i, s), Items.Remove(s), Items.RemoveAt(i), Items.Clear(). | ||
RadioButton or CheckBox | |||
rbcb.Checked | True if the radio button or check box is checked. | ||
InputBox - Input dialog | |||
s = | InputBox(msg) | Displays input dialog prompting with msg. Returns "" if cancelled. | |
s = | InputBox(msg, t) | As above with title t in titlebar. | |
s = | InputBox(msg, t, dflt) | As above but initializes textbox to dflt. | |
MessageBox - Output dialog | |||
MessageBox.Show(msg) | Displays dialog box with msg. | ||
MessageBox.Show(txt, cap, btns, icon [, dfltBtn]) |
Displays dialog box with many options. See p 341. | ||
Many MessageBox constants... | There are many useful button and icon constants. See p 341. |
Events - Click, KeyPress
KeyPress - System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e | |||
e.Handled = | True/False | True means it will be ignored by others. | |
s = | e.KeyChar | Key that was pressed. |
Other
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