Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Now/Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Now (Microsoft Press)(X03-58607)(1998).ISO/media/chap01/b01d010.cc2

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0, Before we get started writing programs
4, I'd like to show you a few techniques for
5, moving windows around in the Visual
7, Basic programming environment. One of the
9, first windows you'll want to move is the
10, Form window. This is the window that
13, you'll use to design your user interface,
15, so you'll want to have plenty of real
16, estate for the Form window. You can drag
18, the Form window by clicking a selection
21, handle at the lower right-hand corner of
22, the Form window and resizing it. This is
26, exactly what you'll want to do when
27, you're creating the exact size of the window
29, that your users will see. If you want
31, to create a window that's bigger than the
33, Project window, just simply drag it
34, outside of the Project window. And when you
38, release the mouse, scroll bars will
40, appear that will let you scroll various
42, parts of your Form window. You can also
46, resize the tool windows in the Visual Basic
49, programming environment by clicking
51, slightly above the title bar and dragging
53, downward or upward. In this case, we
57, dragged the Project window down and it gave
60, us a little more space to see properties
62, in the Properties window. But if we
64, want to have even more space for the
66, Properties window, we can go ahead and
67, double-click the Properties window title bar
70, and display the entire Properties window.
72, After we've set a few properties, we can
74, send it back by double-clicking the
76, title bar again. This process of displaying
79, a window in its expanded state and in
82, its snapped state is called docking. And
86, we can move windows around in the Visual
87, Basic programming environment quite
89, easily by dragging them. Right now, I'm
93, dragging the Properties window and you can
94, see a darker border around the
96, Properties window. That means that when I
98, release the mouse, the window will appear in
100, its full expanded state. But if I move
105, the window back over some other windows,
108, you'll see that a thin border appears.
110, This means that the window will dock or
112, snap into place when I release the mouse
114, button. Finally, I'd like to show you
120, how you can close windows in the Visual
122, Basic programming environment. To close a
124, window, simply click the Close button in
127, the upper right-hand corner of the
129, Windows title bar. Here, I'll close the
130, Properties window, and I'll also close the
135, Project window. Finally, I'll close the
138, Form Layout window. Now, you can see we
140, have plenty of space to see our form, if
142, that's what we wanted to do. To make the
144, windows appear again, we'll just click
146, those commands in the View menu. We'll
149, click View and go down and click Project
151, Explorer to display the Project window.
154, We'll click Properties Window to display
157, the Properties window, and we'll click
159, Form Layout Window to display the Form
161, Layout window.
165, END