Visual Basic Terms &

Definitions, Part I
Visual Basic Window
Toolbox
 Controls/objects you
can position on your
form to build your
program.
Properties Window

 Displays the properties (attributes) of the object

currently selected in the form.
 Alphabetic or Categorized
Project Explorer Window
 A tree-structured view
of all the files inserted
into the application.
You can expand these
and collapse branches
of the views to get more
or less detail.
Code Window
 The Visual Basic
window into which you
type your program’s
source code
 Basically, many lines of
commands that tell the
program what to do
Review Message Box

Private Sub Command1_Click()

MsgBox “Visual Basic Rocks!”
End Sub
Input/Output

& Variables
Input/Output (I/O)
 Process of moving data in and out of a
computer.
 Up to a program to control your computer’s
input and output.
 Example:

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Form1.Print “Here’s some text output.”
End Sub
Input/Output, cont.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Form1.Print “Here’s some text output.”
End Sub

 Print command creates a single line of text, in the

form’s window. This text is called a string literal and
must be enclosed in quotation marks.
 Form1 is telling Visual Basic where to look for the
print command.
Input/Output, Printer
The example below shows the output change to the
printer. The word “Printing…” will appear on the
user’s screen, while the text will print to the printer.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Form1.Print “Printing…”
Printer.Print “Here’s some text output.”
Printer.EndDoc
Form1.Cls
End Sub
Variables
 Basicallymemory boxes with names – you
the programmer, supply the names.
 For example, to keep track of the score in the
game, you might have variable named score.
 Whenever the player’s score changes, you can
put the new score value into the variable named
score.
Variables and Input
 Get user input by using TextBox control.
 Start new project – place a TextBox control
and a CommandButton control on the form.
 Enter for CommandButton in code window:

Private Sub Command1_Click()

cars = Text1.Text
Form1.Print “You have “ & cars & “ cars.”
End Sub