WISE OWL EXERCISES
VISUAL BASIC EXERCISES
VISUAL BASIC EXERCISES
- Drawing forms (2)
- Form events (1)
- Variables and data types (2)
- Enumerations and constants (2)
- Form validation (3)
- Menus and toolbars (2)
- Files and folders (1)
- Basic DataGridViews (1)
- Reacting to DataGridView events (3)
- Advanced DataGridViews (2)
- Creating classes (4)
- Coding in VB.NET (2)
- Variables and constants (3)
- Testing conditions (2)
- Passing arguments (3)
- Using arrays (2)
- Loops (2)
- Working with files (3)
- Lists (3)
- Creating properties (3)
Visual Basic | Menus and toolbars exercise | Coding a menu, toolbar and status bar
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| Software ==> | Visual Basic (46 exercises) |
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| Topic ==> | Menus and toolbars (2 exercises) |
| Level ==> | Average difficulty |
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Add the form in the folder above into your project (or use a previous version that you have been working with).
Add a MenuStrip, ToolStrip, StatusStrip and ContextMenu to your form so that the form works as shown below (you may find the property shown below useful):
When you click in a textbox, the menu, toolbar, right mouse menu and status bar all react sensibly
Here is what the menu would look like for our example:
The current colour option is disabled and checked
You may find it useful to write the following property of the form, so that you can find out which the currently selected textbox is (note that if the user is not on a text box, this routine will return Nothing - which you can test for):
TryCast attempts to convert an object to a specific data type, and returns NOTHING if this fails
When you have everything working perfectly (or more likely, when you run out of time), close everything down!