The Basics of VB [Part 2]

[SomeWhiteGuy?]

Don't delete this! I changed this post to part 2 so there is no need in deleting it, it's no longer the same as part 1.

Part 2

Simple Notepad App

Make a new Windows forms application (dont name it My Web Browser ;P, lol):



Now, add 1 menu strip, 1 context menu, 1 RichTextBox. Make it look something like this:



Now to set the context menu!

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or add the following:

Undo
Redo
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Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
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Select All

Now if you couldnt see the menu strip in the picture, or havent added any of the options you saw on there yet then you need to go ahead and do that...the options and items are:

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Now its time for...

Coding Our Notepad

Coding The Context Menu (Named ' ContextMenuStrip1'):

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everything under here is pretty self explanatory...

once you've got that done go to the RichTextBox properties and go to ContextMenuStrip and change it to ContextMenuStrip1 (or whatever you named it)

Should be:

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Coding The Menu Strip (File, Edit, etc...(Named 'MenuStrip1'):

New:

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Code definitions:

If RichTextBox2.TextLength > 0 Then --- Saying if the length of text in RichTextBox2 is greater than 0 Then...

MsgBox("Are your sure...bla bla", MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Continue?") --- Saying MsgBox("Text to be displayed in message box", The mssage box style, "the title of the message box")

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Under 'File':
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Open:

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Dim open As New OpenFileDialog --- Make a new OpenFileDialog called open
open.CheckFileExists = True --- Makes sure that the selected file actually exists
open.CheckPathExists = True --- Makes sure that the path of the selected file exist
open.InitialDirectory = "Documents" --- Makes the starting directory of 'open' MyDocuments
open.MultiSelect = False --- Makes it to where the user cannot select more than 1 file

Save as:

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Exit:

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Application.End()

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Now under 'Edit':
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Font:

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Font Color:

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Background Color:

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Now under 'About/Info':
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About:

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I will be working on a Part 2 for more advanced things. Thanks for reading!

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It took me a long time to write this, a simple 'Thanks!' would suffice.

[alabama]

Very well done, those gifs must take you along time, I know from personal experience.
I may not be making a notepad, but what you show in here will help me a bit with other projects.

[thanasis2028]

Nice tutorial! +1 rep by me

[SomeWhiteGuy?]

Thanks everyone, glad you liked it

[Uzi]

Very nice tutorial man,
It's informative - I'll be sure to remember to give you some reputation whenever I've hit 100 posts.
You can only give reputation if you have 100+ posts, if I don't remember then remind me.
Thanks man, take care!

[SomeWhiteGuy?]

Very nice tutorial man,
It's informative - I'll be sure to remember to give you some reputation whenever I've hit 100 posts.
You can only give reputation if you have 100+ posts, if I don't remember then remind me.
Thanks man, take care!

Haha, thanks