Sunday, February 8, 2009

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.

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