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.

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/

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter 4

In Chapter 4 of VB6 for Dummies we write BASIC code to go with the simple form created in chapter 3.

The code looks something like this:

Private Sub cmdExit_Click() Unload Me End Sub Private Sub optFrown_Click() imgFrown.Visible = True imgSmile.Visible = False imgGrin.Visible = False txtSmile.Text = "" txtGrin.Text = "" txtFrown.Text = "Good bye, cruel world." End Sub Private Sub optGrin_Click() imgFrown.Visible = False imgSmile.Visible = False imgGrin.Visible = True txtSmile.Text = "" txtGrin.Text = "I'm going to Disney World!" txtFrown.Text = "" End Sub Private Sub optSmile_Click() imgFrown.Visible = False imgSmile.Visible = True imgGrin.Visible = False txtSmile.Text = "Hello, world!" txtGrin.Text = "" txtFrown.Text = "" End Sub

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter 3

In chapter 3 of VB6 for Dummies you read about and make a GUI. That's short for Graphical User Interface. The book leads you through making a simple GUI from scratch and then shows you how to use the VB Application Wizard.

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter2

Chapter 2 of VB6 for Dummies leads you through opening and closing VB6. It also introduces you to the user interface and how to open, close, dock and undock the user interface windows. Oh yeah, it also teaches you how to start a new project or open projects you've already worked on.

Why VB6 for Dummies?

I learned to program in VB6 back in 1999... sort of. I got barely passing grades for a couple of college courses.

Now I'd like to really learn VB6. I need to start over from scratch and pick a book that will really come down to my level. I've picked Visual Basic 6 for Dummies. The book comes with a CD-ROM that has sample programs. It's also the simplest-looking VB6 book I could find. In the book's introduction, the author claims that "If you can doodle mindlessly on a scrap of paper, you can write a program in Visual Basic 6. (Seriously!)". Something tells me I won't be creating major projects before the end of the book, but that's OK.

VB6 for Dummies: Chapter 1

So, it's past 1AM and what am I doing? I'm reading a dumbed-down programming book. I just read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Visual Basic 6 for Dummies. Chapter 1 just introduces you to the ideas forms, objects, and events and gives an overview of the development cycle.

I like Wallace Wang's writing style.