Properties via Code

Open up Visual Basic and click on Standard Exe once you’re form has loaded put 2 Command buttons on your form and a text box and give them the names “cmdGood” and “cmdBad” it doesn’t matter which one has what BUT don’t give you’re buttons a caption leave them as they are and give the text box the name txtMsg.

Double click on “cmdGood” button and insert in this code:

Private Sub cmdGood_click()
Form1.Caption = "Visual Basic is Good"
txtMsg.Text = "Visual Basic Rules!"
End Sub
After that double click on cmdBad button and insert this code:

Private Sub cmdBad_click()
Form1.Caption = "Visual Basic is Bad"
txtMsg.Text = "Visual Basic Sucks!"
End Sub

Then after that click on the form its self and insert this code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Form1.Caption = "Visual Basic Is..."
cmdGood.Caption = "Good"
cmdBad.Caption = "Bad"
txtMsg.Text = ""
End Sub

When you have entered the code it shoud look like this:



Explanation of the code.

cmdGood and cmdBad
Form1.caption – This changes the text at the top of the forms title bar from form1 to Visual Basic is good/bad
txtMsg.text – This puts text in the text box.

Form_Load

Any code put into the form load event will be executed when the program is started, this is where you would put you're spash scren code.

Form1.caption – This changes the text at the top of the forms title bar from form1 to Visual Basic is…
cmdGood.Caption – This gives the command buttons its Caption it changes it from Command 1 to Good the same goes for cmdBad
txtMsg.Text = “” – this is the same as above BUT since there is no text in between the speech marks it just makes the text box empty.

Click Run > Start and click the buttons and watch what happens





Well there you go! There is you’re second program. Click File > Make project1.exe to make it a .exe, for you’re homework, I suggest you play about with the Properties VIA code.

If you have any questions just post them. Hope you liked my tutorial!

RoNsOn

Ronson - Please email me the images so I can host them for you.

Faken

ATM faken, i haven't got the images, but when i find some time, i'll create some new ones and email them to you.

Did the images ever come for this tut?

Yeh, long before you was here, thanks for the sarcasm.

Its not sarcasm we were removing all the dead tutorials form Pixel2Life

and still this has no images, its of no use to anyone without them.

and I joined here 4dys after you if you notice.

If you must know, i do have other things to do other than make images for tutorials, i have course work and exams for college. And since i've got free time i've just found the images for BOTH of my tutorials.

I think you'll find i was on this forum before the date registered, i was here before the forum was hacked.

Doesn't matter when you or I was here, we just need images in the tut

After you have read this I'll remove all the silly replies.

Ok guys chill.... Ronson - Donna is just doing her job so stop giving her a hard time. Let's all just get along because this bickering is completely pointless. She was asking a sincere question and not being sarcastic so stop attacking her.

Now then, are these the images you emailed me or is that for a separate tut that is in the word doc?

I'm leaving for a flight in 10 mins and hopefully this crap is gone when I check the messages tonight.

Faken

Yes those images were for my tutorials, i have written and posted.