Layout Controls

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Layout Controls Dialogs

• Business 92
• Fall 2007
• Roldan

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Reminders

• MIS Experience
• Midterm next week bring blue book
• Midterm Review

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Layout Controls

• Use layout controls to organize other controls on
  a form
• The TabControl allows you to organize sets of
  controls in different tabbed pages on the same
  form
• Use the TabPages property of the TabControl to
  change the text property for each Tab

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Dialog Boxes

• Dialog Boxes can be used to obtain user input
  for common tasks like saving formatting changes

Code Anatomy If SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
MsgBox(SaveFileDialog1.FileName) End If
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Message Boxes

• Message Boxes can be used to obtain simple
  answers from users
• See page 223 for values equivalent to button
  clicks in a message box

Code Anatomy Dim I As Integer I
MsgBox("Do you want to develop weapons of mass
destruction?", MsgBoxStyle.YesNoCancel,
"PC-Apocalypse") MsgBox("This is the
button you clicked " CStr(I))
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Code Anatomy If..ThenElseif

• Dim response As MsgBoxResult
• response MsgBox("do you really want to
  exit", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo)
• If response MsgBoxResult.Yes Then
• End
• ElseIf response MsgBoxResult.No Then
• Me.Show()
• End If

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Code Anatomy ForNext
TextBox1.Clear() Dim i As Integer
For i 1 To ListBox1.SelectedItems.Count
TextBox1.Text TextBox1.Text
ListBox1.SelectedItems.Item(i - 1) vbCr vbLf
Next
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Input Boxes

• An input box allows users to enter free form
  answers in response to prompts

Code Anatomy Dim Answer As String
Answer InputBox("type something", "testing")
MsgBox(Answer)