BCA Syllabus – Visual Programming

3.4 Visual Programming

Second Year          Part III Group A              Third Semester                Subject Code:   

Unit - 1

Starting a new project – The properties of window – Common form properties – Scale properties – Color properties – Making a form responsive – Printing a visual -representation of a form – typos – creating stand – alone windows programs – The toolbox – creating controls – The name(Control name) property – properties of command buttons – simple event procedures for command buttons –access keys – Image controls – Text boxes – labels – Navigating between controls – Message boxes – The Grid – The ASCII representation of forms

Unit - 2

Statements in Visual Basic – Variables – Setting properties with code – Data Types – Working with variables – More on strings – More on numbers – Constants – Input boxes – Displaying information on a form – The format function – Picture boxes – Rich Text Boxes – The Printer Object – Determination loops – indeterminate loops – Making decisions – Select case – Nested If-Then’s – The GoTo – String functions – Numeric Functions – Date and Time functions – financial functions.

Unit - 3

Function procedures – sub procedures – Advanced uses of procedures and functions – Using the Object Browser to Navigate among your subprograms – List: One-dimensional arrays – Arrays with more than one dimension – Using Lists and Array with functions and procedures – The new array-based string – Records (User-Defined Types)

Unit - 4

The With statement – Enums – Control arrays – List and Combo Boxes – The Flex grid control – Code Modules: Global Procedures – The Do Events Function and Sub Main – Accessing Windows function – Error Trapping – Creating an Object in Visual Basic – Building your own classes

Unit - 5

Fundamentals of graphics – Screen scales – The line and shape controls – Graphics via code – Lines and Boxes – Circles, Ellipses and Pie Charts. The Mouse event procedures – Dragging and dropping operations – File commands – Sequential files- Random access files – Binary files – sharing files – File system controls – The file system objects – The Clip Board – Running another windows program from within

TEXT BOOK:

    GRAY CORNELL, “VISUAL BASIC 6 from the GROUND UP”, Tata McGraw Hill

    Edition, 1999.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Guide to Visual Basic 6 Tec media - Peter Norton’s & Michael Groh, 1998.

2. Visual Basic - Paul Sheriff – PHI – 1999.

3. Mastering visual Basic 6 – Evangelus Petroutsos BPB Puhlnata - TMH, 1999.