One of the objects you can work with in VB6 is the Screen object. This will allow you to find information about the current screen configuration, which will in turn allow you to position your forms and other output in the correct position on the users screen, regardless of the current resolution or dpi settings.
This lesson discusses how to work with MDI forms in Visual Basic 6. A sample program has been given at the end of this lesson to enable the learners to quickly understand the concepts of MDI forms.
You can use splash-screen in your windows app to make the program more attractive. The splash screen is a form template which you should set to appear before the main window, or the actual program appears.
In Visual Basic 6, a windows application may have more than one window. Most of the Windows applications contain several windows. You can make a multiple windows software by adding some forms to your project as because forms are nothing but the windows of the final product.
Most commercial software products have popup menus (also known as context menus) as they can make the application more user-friendly and powerful.
Menus are one of the most important features of a software product. Every standard software must have menus. You generally see a menu on top of a software interface.
A function procedure in Visual Basic 6 has a scope, a unique name, parameter list and return value. You can pass any datatype to a procedure e.g Integer, Boolean, Long, Byte, Single, Double, Currency, Date, String and Variant.
Before proceeding with this lesson, be sure to read the section covering Variable Scopes. As we have discussed in the lesson about variable scoping, that procedures are of three types : Sub Procedures are of two types : Every procedure has a unique name, a scope and a list of arguments. The function procedure, in addition, has a return… Read More »
The user defined type in Visual Basic 6 is a compound data structure. It holds several variables of different data types. After defining a UDT, you can assign values to the member variables of the UDT.
Visual Basic 6 is rich in data types. So you should know the usage of all the data types to make a powerful application. Integer values Among the data types for storing integer values, Integer is the most used data type for its efficiency. But sometimes you may use the Long data type instead of Integer especially when… Read More »