VISUAL BASIC


During the Visual Basic segment, it is usually vital that you attend every class and work on your
assignment as we go along.

INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL BASIC


	Example:  you will write a grass roots VISUAL-BASIC  system that calculate loans,
	quote prices, and print customer letters.  This is the VENUS case in your VISUAL BASIC book distributed in class
.

	Venus Motors wants to write a software program.  

	The program will have display 5 screens to the users, which
	VISUAL BASIC calls forms.

	Each screen (form) will be stored in a separate file under the
	names:

		FRMTITLE.FRM -- displays mainmenu 
		FRMCUST.FRM -- customer name & address 
		FRMNOTES.FRM -- notes to customers
		FRMPAY.FRM -- calculates a loan payment
		FRMQUOTE.FRM -- calculates a price quote

	Note: In VISUAL BASIC, all forms are stored with a file
	extension .FRM

	DEMONSTRATION

Together, the five forms are called a project.

The project is stored under a file name with an extension .VBP

For your assignment, you will store the project under the name:

T4VENUS.VBP

In Visual Basic, when you load a project, it grabs all the forms associated with the project 
and tells VISUAL BASIC which form will be displayed first to the user during runntime.

To accomplish your assignment, we will build one form at a time.

The first form we will build is the FRMTITLE.FRM.

To build a form, you load VISUAL BASIC into RAM.

 VISUAL BASIC will display the following to you:

	Project Window -- stores the project name & name of
		all the forms associated with this project.
		 (We’ll name our project  T4VENUS.VBP

	Form Window, used to “paint” and “program” a form

	Toolbox Window -- contains the objects which we
	“drag” onto the form.

	Sample objects:  	image like the rocket ship
				label like “Venus Motors are Rocketing...”
				option button like “star XL  O“

	Properties Window -- after putting the objects on a form, we
		set their properties

		Each object type has its own set of properties.


		For example, the image has the following properties:
			name:   imgrocket
			picture: (icon)
			stretch:  true
	
		For example, the label has the following properties:
			caption: “Venus Sales are ....”
			font: MS Sans Serf
			font size: 18
			autosize: true