Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Adding, moving, and deleting menu items

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Creating checked menu items

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Programming menus

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Implementing context menus

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Assigning shortcut keys

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Creating toolbar items

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Defining toggle buttons and separators

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Creating a status bar

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Using a graphical user interface (GUI) 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 ...