Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic® 6 in 24 Hours

Chapter 11. Additional Controls

Now that you've added several programming statements to your Visual Basic language repertoire, you can learn about additional controls to add new features to your applications and to take advantage of some of the more powerful commands you now know. As you learn about new controls, your programming ability grows by leaps and bounds because your programs become richer in functionality and user interaction.

You'll learn about the selection controls, how to program scrollbars, and how to set the Timer control to let your application know when a predetermined amount of time has passed.

The highlights of this hour include

• How option buttons differ from check boxes

• When to change the check box's style

• Why scrollbars contain ...