VB-104 : Creating Tool Bar with Click Event

How to create a Tool Bar in VB and make a Click Event For the created Buttons.

(Taken from VB-Tutorial CDs ..)

Select, Project--> Components.

Then a Dialog Box will appear and select Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 and Click OK, as given below :

Then , we can see that ,some tools are added to the ToolBar , as shown below : 

Note the Actual ToolBar and  ToolBar after adding the Control:

     

  

   Add 2 Controls called ToolBar and Image List to our Form (The added Controls will not visible in the form while running ) , as given below :

     

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Changing  Properties to the 2 added controls :

 (A)Right Click the second Control  Image List to get the property page as shown below :

It has  3 options as General, Image and Color

• Select the General Tab ...From there , change set the size as 32X32  and Click ok.
• Next select the Image Tab from the Property Page of ToolBar ..It is shown after the belw given Image.

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• General Tab :

Image Tab :     

Next select the Image Tab from the Property Page of ToolBar .And select Insert Picture to insert pictures .If we insert 4 pictures , then the Image Count will be 4 .

 (B)Right Click the first Control  ToolBar to get the property page as shown below :

It has  3 options as General, Buttons and Picture 

• Select the General Tab ...From there , change the third option Image List from None to Image List1 , and Click OK.
• Next select the Buttons option from the Property Page of ToolBar .It is shown after the belw given Image.

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• General Tab :

• Button Tab :       

Click Insert Button ,Give a Caption for the inserted picture ..We can insert any number of pictures as we like.(Note that , the Index of each inserted image will be 1,2,3....etc.upto the selected image)

Run the Project :

We can see a ToolBar in the Form , and with 4 Buttons.

But , There is only one click event for all this 4 Buttons. 

Each Buttons has a property named Index

Using this Index Property , we can write Code for each Buttons .

(That will follow by another Program..)

Refer Program Using Menu Bar also.

(D) Errors :

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