Visual Basic 6 Programming: Business Applications with a Design Perspective

Table of Contents

Chapter 11 Menus and Multiple Form Applications

• 11.1 The Menu Control
  • Creating a Menu
  • Popup Menus
  • Invoking an Action
  • Levels of Menus
• 11.2 Multiple Form Applications
  • Adding a Form to a Project
  • Starting Up and Calling a Form
  • Modal and Modeless Forms
  • Unloading and Hiding Forms
  • Sharing Data between Forms
  • The Standard Module
  • A Multiple Form Example
• 11.3 MDI Applications
  • Differences between MDI and SDI in Behavior
  • Creating an MDI Application
• 11.4 Coding an MDI project-An Example
  • Features of the Project
  • Creating the Interface
  • Coding the Project
  • Handling Events in the MDI Form
  • Coding the Procedures in the Standard Module
  • Handling the Events in the Child Form
  • Building the Find Dialog Box
  • Creating MDI Applications: A Recap
  • Additional Remarks
• 11.5 Designing a Large Project
  • Modular Design
  • "Factoring" to Minimize Code
  • "Layered" Standard Modules
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • ActiveX Components
• Summary
• Visual Basic Explorers
• Exercises
• Projects