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Thursday, 20 March 2014

About the tool bar controls of Visual Basic 6.0


  • Pointer :This is the only one item in the tool bar that does not draw a control . it is used to re-sized to move a control to one place to another after it has been drawn on the form 
  • Label : It is used for text that is not supposed change at run time such as a caption under a graphic .
  • Frame : It is used to create a graphical or functional grouping for controls. To group control, the frame is drawn first and then the controls are drawn inside the frame. Normally, the option Radio buttons or Check Boxes are put inside the Frame. The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons can also be grouped together inside a frame. 
  • Check Box : it is used to create a box that the user can easily choose to indicate if somethings is true or false, or to display multiple choices when the user can choose more than one.
  • Combo Box : A combo box is Basically a combination of a list box and text box . The user can select an item from list box or can enter a value in the text box .
  • Horizontal Scroll Bar : It is used to provide a graphical tool for quickly navigating through a long list of items or a large amount of information for indication the current position on a scale or as an input device or indicator of speed quantity.
  • Timer : This control is used to trap timer event after specified interval .
  • Directory List Box : It is used to display the existing directories in the current drive and to select one.
  • Shape : It is used to draw a variety of shapes like a rectangle , oval , circle etc. on the form during the designing.
  • Image : It is a graphical control used to display pictures. it is function is similar to that of the picture box but it used for fewer resources and also supports less properties and events than picture box .
  • OLE : it is provide a connection between the program and OLE server .
  • Picture Box : It display graphics . It can also serve as a container for the other controls .
  • Text Box : It displays text. Allows the user to enter and edit text . 
  • Command Button : It is allow the user to initiate actions by clicking the button . 
  • Option Button : It lets the user to choose one option from a group of item . 
  • List Box : it lets the user to choose from a list item.
  • Vertical Scroll Bar : same as Horizontal scroll bar
  • Drive List Box : it lets the user to select a disk drive from the list of the available drives of the system.
  • File List Box : it lets the user to select a file.
  • Line : it used to draw a line on the form.
  • Data control : It provide an interface between the program and the data source. 

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