Lecture-9 : Output Tools and Methods

Lecture-9 : Output Tools and Methods
In the Visual Basic language , there many tools and methods used for output the data and information are:
The print method : this method used with the form as default statement to print the output at left side from up to down. This method is simplest and inactive because it print the output directly at the form regardless founding any tools on the form that will lead to hide it under these tools.
The Label tool: This tool most commonly used as label for other object , but may be used for output the data and information at text format. It consider as simple tool for the output.
The Text Box tool: The text box is an active tool for the input data as well as used to output any type of data and information. This tool commonly used in the application that designed as the user interfaces such as the data bases application. It can display single line or multi-lines and the tables.
The Picture Box tool: This tool primarily used for display the graphical output as lines and shapes. Also it may use to display the text and numerical data.
The Image tool: This tool used to display the images only.
The MsgBox() Function
You use MsgBox() to display a message to the user and get a return value
corresponding to one of the buttons in the message box. Here’s the syntax:

MsgBox(prompt[, buttons] [, title] [, helpfile, context])
The prompt argument holds the string displayed as the message in the dialog box. (The maximum length of prompt is approximately 1,024 characters.)
The buttons argument specifies what to put into the message box, as specified in the following table. The default value for buttons is 0.