Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2012 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Adding, moving, and deleting menu items

• Creating checked menu items

• Programming menus

• Implementing context menus

• Assigning shortcut keys

• Creating toolbar items

• Defining toggle buttons and separators

• Creating a status bar

The graphical user interface (GUI) you can use to interact with and navigate programs is one of the greatest features of Windows. Despite this, a number of Windows users still rely primarily on the keyboard, preferring to use the mouse only when absolutely necessary. Data-entry people in particular never take their hands off the keyboard. Many software companies receive support calls from angry customers because a commonly used function ...