Acknowledgement

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Acknowledgement

• Slides created by Dr.

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Lists and Menus Outline

• List Box control
• Combo Box control
• Menus

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List Box Control Properties

• Displays a list of items.
• User can select one or several items from the
  list.
• Use only if there is substantial amount of space
  on the form.

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Exercise (Adding a List Box Control)

• Adding a List Box control
• Draw a new label
• Draw a list box
• Try all values of MultiSelect property
• Try both 0-Standard and 1-CheckBox styles

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Combo Box Control Properties

• Combination of a text box and a list box.
• Displays a set of items in a drop-down list.
• Can accept text that the user types in.

• User can use keyboard (letters and arrows) to
  search for the items in the list.
• Focus on the text box portion.
• No drill-down search.

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Exercise (Adding a Combo Box control )

• Adding a Combo Box control
• Remove txtState text box
• Draw a combo box
• Name cboState
• Try all values of the Style property
• 0-DropDown Combo,
• 1-Simple Combo,
• 2-DropDown List.

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Menu Systems

• Most Windows applications have a menu bur under
  the title of the window.

• Pop-up menus (activated by right-clicking on a
  form) generally offer additional functionality.
  Some menus are de facto standard for most
  applications (such as File and Help).

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Some Menu Standards
An ellipsis () to the right of a menu item
indicates a dialog box
A checkmark to the left of a menu item indicates
a selected option
An arrow to the right of a menu item indicates a
lower level menu
Menu shortcuts (same as access keys, hotkeys, or
accelerator keys)
Separators may be used to group items into
submenus
Underlined letters in each menu item. For
top-level menus Alt-ltkeygt for drop-down menus
ltkeygt
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Menu Editor and Properties

• Most properties can be set using the Menu Editor

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Exercise (Adding A menu)

• Adding a Menu
• File mnuFile
• Employee mnuFEmp
• - mnuFSep
• Exit mnuFExit
• Edit mnuEdit
• Cut mnuECut
• Copy mnuECopy
• Paste mnuEPaste
• View mnuView
• Toolbar mnuVToolbar
• Status Bar mnuVStatusBar
• Window mnuWindow
• Tile Horizontal mnuWTileHorizontal
• Tile Vertical mnuWTileVertical
• Cascade mnuWCascade
• Arrange Icons mnuWArrangeIcons
• Help mnuHelp
• Help Contents mnuHContents

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Creating an Executable Program

• It is possible to create an executable program
  without writing a single line of code. All you
  need is the user interface.
• Select menu item File?Make

• Select the a name of the file to be created (by
  default, it is the same as the name of the
  project).