DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name of the faculty : G. Radha
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : CCP
Institute : 026 - SG Govt. Polytechnic,
Adilabad
Year / Semester : III Year / V Semester
Subject : Visual Basic – I
Subject Code : CCP - 503
Topic : Understand Menus and
Common dialogue control
Duration : 50 Mts.
Sub Topic : Common Dialogue Control
Teaching Aids : Animations & Images

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Recap

 Custom Dialogue Control.

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Objectives :

Upon the completion of this period ,you will be

able to understand about
 Common Dialogue Control.

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Common Dialogue Control

 The Common Dialogue Control is a control that

displays the commonly used dialogue boxes such as
Save As, Color, Font, Print and Open

 When a Common Dialogue Control is drawn on a

Form, it automatically resizes itself and it is invisible at
run time

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Add a Common Dialogue Box to a Form

Follow these steps :

 Components is selected from the Project Menu

which displays a components box.

 After ensuring that Microsoft Common Dialogue

6.0 Control check box has a check mark in it, the
OK button is clicked.

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

 A new Standard EXE Project is opened and the

Form and the Project files are saved as
Cmdialog.frm and Cmdialog.vbp.

 The application is designed as per the following

table.

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

Object Property Settings

Form Caption The Common

Dialogue Program
Name Cmdialog

Commondialog Cancel Error True

Name Commondialog1

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Example on Common Dialogue Control
The following are Menu Items to be added to
the Form.
Caption Name

&File MnFile

….Color MnColor

….Open MnOpen

….- MnSep

….E&xit MnExit

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

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Example on Common Dialogue Control
The following code is entered in the
MnColor_Click() procedure
Private Sub MnColor_Click()
On Error GoTo errortrap
CommonDialog1.Action = 3 'Display Color Dialogue Box'
Cmdialog.BackColor = CommonDialog1.Color
Exit Sub
errortrap:
MsgBox "Dialog Box is Cancelled"
End Sub

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

 Whenever Color Menu is selected it displays a

Color Dialogue Box.
 Before displaying the dialogue box, the
MnColor_Click() procedure sets an errortrap. The
purpose of Errortrap is to detect the error during the
display of dialogue box.
 We have set the CancelError property of the
CommonDialog Control to True at design time.

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Example on Common Dialogue Control
 Therefore, if the Cancel button is pressed when
the dialog box is displayed, the Errortrap, which
has been set, displays the message “Dialog Box is
Cancelled” and the dialog box disappears.

 However, if a specific color is selected from the

dialog box and OK button is clicked the BackColor
of the Form is changed to that particular Color.

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Color Dialog Box

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Changing of Form Back Color

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When the Cancel Button is Clicked

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 Example on Common Dialogue Control
The following code is entered in the
MnOpen_Click() procedure
Private Sub MnOpen_Click()
Dim Filter As String
On Error GoTo errortrap
Filter = "all Files (*.*) | *.*"
CommonDialog1.Filter = Filter
CommonDialog1.Action = 1
MsgBox "Selected File is:" +

ommonDialog1.FileName
Exit Sub
errortrap:
MsgBox "Dialog box is cancelled"
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End Sub
Example on Common Dialogue Control

 The above procedure displays an Open Dialog Box.

 Before displaying the dialog box, the first statement of the
MnOpen_Click() procedure sets an errortrap the purpose of
which is to detect an error during display of the dialog box
 If the Cancel button is pressed when the dialog box is displayed
the errortrp, which has been set, displays the message “Dialog
Box is Canceled” and the dialog box is disappear
 However, if a specific File is selected from the dialog box, the
name of the selected File is displayed as message box

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Open Menu Control clicked

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When a File is Selected in Dialog Box

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When the Cancel Button is Clicked

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

The following code is entered in the

MnExit_Click() procedure :
Private Sub MnExit_Click()
End
End Sub

The above procedure terminates the application.

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Example on Common Dialogue Control

 Like the Color and Open dialog boxes the properties

of the Common Dialog Control may be used to
determine the user’s response to the dialog box.

 The Action property 4 displays the Font Dialog Box

and 5 displays the Print Dialog Box.

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Summary
 Common Dialogue Control.

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Quiz

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• The option of common Dialog box that
helps in font selection is

A) 4
B) 2
C) 1
D) 6

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----------------- is used to display
commonly used Dialogue Boxes?

A) Custom Dialogue Box

B) Common Dialogue Control
C) Standard Dialogue Box
D) Pre-defined Dialogue Box

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Write short notes on Common Dialog Control

3. Develop an application to change select fonts

through common dialog box

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Assignment

1. Develop an application using common

dialog box to print file

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