TOOL BOX IN VISUAL STACK

TOOL BOX

The Tool box contains the tools you use to place various controls on your forms. It
displays all the standard Visual Basic controls plus any custom controls and objects you have added to your project with the Custom Controls dialog box.

There are 47 basic tools in the Toolbox:

Pointer: This is the only item in the Toolbox that doesn't draw a control. It is used to
resize or move a control after it's been drawn on a form.

Label: Used for text that you don't want the user to change, such as a caption under a
graphic.

Link Label: A Hyperlink label
Command Button: Used to create a button that the user can choose to carry out a
command.

Text Box: Used to hold text that the user can either enter or change.

Main Menu: Adds menus under the titles bar of the form. i.e. File, Edit, …

Check Box: Used to create a box that the user can easily choose to indicate if something is true or false, or to display multiple choices when the user can choose more than one.

Radio Button: Used in a group of option buttons to display multiple choices from which the user can choose only one.

Group Box: Typically used to serve as a border for control with similar needs

Picture Box: Used to display graphical images (either decorative or active), as a
container that receives output from graphics methods, or as a container for other
controls.



Panel: Used to host or hold other controls that belong to the same group

Datagrid: Allows users see and edit multiple rows of data simultaneously, also useful for
rapid entry of large amounts of data

List Box: Used to display a list of items from which the user can choose one. The list can
be scrolled if it has more items than can be displayed at one time

Checked List Box: Allows the user to select multiple items in a list by providing a check
box for each item.

Combo Box: Used to draw a combination list box and text box. The user can either
choose an item from the list or enter a value in the text box.


List View: Displays a list of items with icons, similar to Windows explorer.


Tree View: Displays a hierarchy of nodes, like files and folders.

Tab Control: Allows the user to add multiple tabs to a form, like dividers in a notebook.

Date Time Picker: Allows the user to select a single item from a list of dates or times.

Month Calendar: Displays a calendar that allows the user to change months and select a
date

Horizontal Scroll Bar: Used to provide a graphical tool for quickly navigating through a
long list of items or a large amount of information, for indicating the current
position on a scale, or as an input device or indicator of speed or quantity.

Vertical Scroll Bar: Used to provide a graphical tool for quickly navigating through a
long list of items or a large amount of information, for indicating the current position on a scale, or as an input device or indicator of speed or quantity.


Timer: Used to generate timer events at set intervals. This control is invisible at run time.


Splitter: To resize docked controls at runtime.


Domain Up Down: Basically a textbox with two buttons for moving up and down in a

list Numeric Up Down: Same as DomainUpDown, except the list is composed of numbers

and the up and down arrows adjust the value of the control


Track Bar: Also called a slider. Used to move through vast amounts of data, or visually
adjust a number.

Progress Bar: Set to indicate the progress of a process by displaying the status in the
form of small rectangles in a long rectangle.

Rich Text Box: A textbox that uses .rtf format.

Image List: Just like it sounds, a list of images. The list can be navigated by a button that
scrolls through the images


Help Provider: Brings up the help window.


Tool Tip: Used to display text when the user moves the mouse over a control.

Context Menu: Displays a menu of frequently used commands associated with the
selected item

Tool Bar: Allows the programmer to add a toolbar to his form

Status Bar: Used to allow an application to display various information about its status


Notify Icon: Used for processes that run in the background, and most of the time don’t
need an interface with the user. A good example would be virus protection
software.

Open File Dialog: Brings up the window that allows the user to select a file for opening

Save File Dialog: Opens the window that lets the user select the location and name of the
current open file


Font Dialog: Brings up the font selection window


Color Dialog: Allows the user to choose the current font color

Print Dialog: Brings up the typical Windows print menu

Print Preview Dialog: Opens the menu window for Print Preview settings

Print Preview Control: Opens print preview with the default settings

Error Provider: Provides a non-intrusive way of showing that there is an error with the input or in a data set. An exclamation mark in a red square is displayed next to the error


Print Document: Prints the current document with the default printer settings

Page Setup Dialog: Opens the window that allows the user to adjust page settings likeNmargins, headers and footers, and orientation.