Chapter 7
- Dialog Boxes - CommonDialog Control
- To add control to project
- Right click on project menu bar
- Click Components
- Click Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0
- To add to form double click on control in
toolbox
- To display File Open
- {controlname}.Filter =
“TextFiles(*.txt)|*.txt|Data Files(*.dat)|*.dat”
- description1|filter1|description2|filter2|….
- {controlname}.ShowOpen
- On error statement can be used to check if
cancel button pressed
- On error goto cancelpressed
- {controlname}.CancelError = True
- {controlname}.ShowOpen
- if cancel pressed control goes to
cancelpressed label statement
- To save a file
- Printdialog
- {controlname}.flags
- cdlPDAllpages
- cdlPDCollate
- cdlPDDisablePrintToFile
- cdlPageNumbers
- etc.
- {controlname}.Showprinter
- Fonts
- Menus