Computer Programming Concepts and Visual Basic David I. Schneider

400 Computer Programming Concepts and Visual Basic
1. Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, point to
Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, and then click on Microsoft ActiveX Control
Pad in the final pop-up list. The window that appears (see Figure 13-6) contains
a template for an HTML document.
FIGURE 13-6 ActiveX Control Pad
2. In the Title element, replace “New Page” with “My First Web Page”.
3. Just below the begin Body tag, type the following lines.
Hello
Type your first name into the box.
4. Press Alt/Edit/Insert ActiveX Control. (An Insert ActiveX dialog box appears
containing a list of all available controls.)
5. Scroll down the list and double-click on Microsoft Forms 2.0 TextBox. (Two
windows appear. One window, titled Edit ActiveX Control, contains a text box
and is similar to a Visual Basic form. The other window is an abbreviated text
box Properties window.)
6. Scroll down the Properties window and click on ID. (The default setting
TextBox1 appears next to ID and in the settings text box at the top of the Properties
window. The ID property is the same as Visual Basic's Name property.)
7. Replace the words in the settings text box with txtFirstName and click on the
Apply button.
8. Go to the Edit ActiveX Control window and make the text box a little larger.
9. Close the windows by clicking on their X buttons. (An OBJECT element for the
text box has been added to the ActiveX Control Pad.)
10. Type .
11. Repeat Steps 4 through 9 to add a command button OBJECT element. (Select
Microsoft Forms 2.0 Command button, give it the ID cmdShow, and the caption
“Show Greeting.”)
12. Press Alt/File/Save As, select a location and name (with extension htm) for the
file, and click on the Save button.
13. Invoke Internet Explorer. (There is no need to actually connect to the internet
via a phone line.)
14. Type the filespec for your saved HTML page into the address box and press
Enter. (The window in Figure 13-7 will appear.)