Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours (Online Version)

I just became aware of an online version of Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours. Enjoy!

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter14

Event procedures! Now we're getting to the good stuff.
Event procedures respond to mouse clicks and key presses. They make things happen. Chapter 14 explains how event procedures work, how to write them, and how to find them.

Code Editor Keys

You spend a lot of time editing code. It is a good idea to learn these keys. It may seem complicated at first, but it really will save you time once you are comfortable with the editor.

Keys	Definition
Backspace	Deletes the character to the left of the cursor
Delete	Deletes the character to the right of the cursor
Ctrl+Y	Deletes the line that the cursor is on
Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line the cursor is on
End	Moves the cursor to the end of the line that the cursor is on
Ctrl+Home	Moves the cursor to the first event procedure
Ctrl+End	Moves the cursor to the last event procedure
Ctrl+Down arrow	Displays the next procedure
Ctrl+Up arrow	Displays the previous procedure
Ctrl+Page Down	Goes to the first line of the next procedure
Ctrl+Page Up	Goes to the first line of the current or previous procedure
Shift+F2	Place the cursor in a procedure name and press F2 to see the code for that procedure
Ctrl+Right arrow	Moves one word to the right
Ctrl+Left arrow	Moves one word to the left
Page Down	Displays the next page down in the Code window
Insert	Toggles the Insert mode on or off
Ctrl+X	Cuts a selected block of text
Ctrl+C	Copies a selected block of text
Ctrl+V	Pastes a previously Cut or Copied block of text
Ctrl+Z	Undoes the last thing you did
Ctrl+F	Finds a word that you specify
F1	Displays Help
F3	Finds the next word that you specified previously using the Ctrl+F command
Shift+F3	Finds the last occurrence of the word that you specified previously using the Ctrl+F command
F6	Switches between Code window panes (if the Code window is split)
Ctrl+H	Searches for a word and replaces it with something else
Ctrl+P	Displays the Print dialog box

This table is based on table 14-1 in "Visual Basic 6 for Dummies"

VB Classic WikiBook

I just stumbled across a VB Classic WikiBook. Although not yet complete, this wikibook is very promising and has a lot of code and links to tutorials. Keep an eye on this one.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter 13

Chapter 13 of VB6 for Dummies covers the common dialog box. The reader needs to do a little more thinking in this chapter than in previous chapters and as the chapter finishes with the Print dialog I am left with questions. The code snippet shows how to make the Print dialog pop open and how to set the number of copies to 1 by default, but it does not show how to send actual data to the printer. For instance, let's say my application has a text box and the user wants to print the contents. Using just the information in this chapter we cannot provide this option for our users. At this point I see the shortcomings of this book's teaching approach.

Common Controls Replacement Project

About ten years ago a group of programmers got together and created replacements for common VB classic controls. Although they have all moved on, the controls can still be found at their website.

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter 12

After a quick review of chapter 11 I finally moved on to chapter 12 of VB6 for Dummies. Chapter 12 teaches submenus, growing menus, and pop-up menus. Submenus are easy enough to make. The section on growing menus teases you... leading you to think you are going to learn how to show a list of recent files in a menu, but only goes half way. The section on pop-up menus has more information than I will ever need to know about pop-up menus, but it's there just in case.

How to make a web browser in VB6

In this video I show how easy it is to make a custom web browser in VB6. I even show you how to make your browser Mozilla based.

Here is the URL to the Mozilla ActiveX Control:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

VB Magic

VB Magic is a replacement for the standard VB project explorer. It has a few more features than the default explorer.


You can download VBMagic by clicking HERE.

Hardcore Visual Basic

Although this book is not new, it is new to me. I do not have a hard copy, but there is an online copy of the book at Karl E. Peterson's One Stop SourceShop. http://vb.mvps.org/hardcore/