Special Windowing and Pop-Ups

• MDI: Multiple Document Interface
• Dialog Boxes
• About Boxes
• Text Windows
• Context-Sensitive Menus

Whole Window Controls

• Menus
• Toolbars
• Status bar

User-Defined Controls

Types of User-Defined Controls

• Introduction to User-Defined Controls
• Composite Controls
• Extended Controls

Properties

• User-Defined Properties
• User-Defined Properties that Change a Control's Layout

Miscellaneous

• Dynamic Control Generation and Ownership
• Example of User-Defined Controls and Properties

Working with External Files

Static Files: How to load files at compile time

• Application Resources: images
• Incorporating other media in your application

Dynamic File I/O: How to access files at run time

• Interactive I/O Controls and Component
• Manipulating Directories
• Parsing File Paths
• Copying Files
• Writing Files
• Reading Files

Elementary Graphics

• General Graphics Information
• Drawing Lines
• Shaping Controls
• Copying Images
• Colours

Dragging and Dropping

• Screen Coordinates
• Dragging and Dropping Objects
• Mouse Cursor
• Detecting Objects Underneath

Integrating MultiMedia (animated gifs and audio)

• Playing Animated GIFs
• Playing audio

Miscellaneous Information

• Arrays and Loops in VB
• Radio Buttons
• Random Number Generator
• Timer Component