Designing Forms
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Designing Forms
■ With Visual Basic, you can easily create form-based applications:
• Forms are created in the Form Designer (FD.EXE), a separate utility used
to build the user interface (forms and controls) for your application.
• Forms contain controls that allow users to provide information to and
interact with an application in a variety of ways.
See: ◄Form► ◄Controls Summary►
■ To create a form:
• From the File menu, choose New Form
■ You can also start the Form Designer from the MS-DOS command line.
See: ◄FD Command-Line Options►
■ Dialog boxes are an integral part of form-based applications. Use the
BorderStyle property settings to identify a form as either a window or a
dialog box. See: ◄Creating a Dialog Box►
■ Menus are also commonly used in form-based applications. To emulate a
Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application, for example, you create an
MDI form that contains a menu bar.
See: ◄Creating a Menu► ◄MDI Applications►
See: ◄Form Design Keys►
◄Tutorial: Designing Forms►
◄Tutorial: Adding Menus To Your Forms►