This sets the color of the TextBox’s text to the color chosen in the ColorDialog.Īdd the following code for the FolderBrowserDialog: Private Sub Button5_Click(sender As Object, _ This simply sets the font of the textbox to the selected font, if OK was selected.Īdd the following code for the ColorDialog: Private Sub Button4_Click(sender As Object, _ If Save was pressed in the dialog as well as a filename filled in, the image in the Picturebox will get saved in the desired format, depending on the File filter that was selected.Īdd the next code for the FontDialog: Private Sub Button3_Click(sender As Object, _ In the preceding code, I have set a file filter again, this time allowing more than one type of file. (SaveFileDialog1.OpenFile(), System.IO.FileStream) SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "JPeg Image|*.jpg|Bitmap Image| _ĭim fsSave As System.IO.FileStream = CType _ If it was, it will show the image in the Picturebox.Īdd the next code for the SaveFileDialog (Save): Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) _
Inside an IF statement, I determine whether the Open button was selected. The Filter gets set to accept only JPG files and the dialogbox’s title gets changed. OpenFileDialog1.Title = "Select a JPEG File" OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "JPG Files|*.jpg" Add the following objects to your form:Īdd the following code behind the button labelled ‘ Open‘: Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) _
Open Visual Basic and create a new Windows Forms project. Each dialog will have its own button dedicated to it, so it may seem as if there is no structure, and therefore I apologise. The aim of this project is to simply introduce you to the world of dialogs.
The PrintPreviewDialog Shows a preview of a document to be printed. Figure 5 shows this dialog in action.Īs the name implies, the PageSetupDialog produces a dialog window in which you can set paper and page settings.įigure 6: PageSetupDialog PrintPreviewDialog The FolderBrowserDialog enables you to select a folder. More information on the ColorDialog can be found here.įigure 4: ColorDialog FolderBrowser Dialog For example, you can decide if you want to show Extended colors. This dialog also has quite a few settings that you can use. With the ColorDialog, you are enabled to select a color for whichever object is in question. You can learn more about the FontDialog‘s settings here. An example of the FontDialogBox is shown in Figure 3. The FontDialog allows you to select fonts as well as font styles for your text. For more information regarding the SaveFileDialog, visit MSDN. The SaveFileDialog looks and behaves the same as the OpenFileDialog, except, it is used for saving files onto disk. More information regarding the OpenFileDialog can be found here. This dialog is quite customizable (as are all the other dialog boxes), because you can set the appropriate File Filters as well as what View you’d like this box to open in. Shown in Figure 1, the OpenFileDialog is the dialog that you will see any time you need to open a file.
Today, I will demonstrate how to use all of the. Imagine if MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint had different Open boxes, or different Font boxes? It would have been chaos and learning to use Microsoft Office would have become much more difficult. The majority of programs have at least one of the common dialogs present. What would life be without the little savvy gadgets that have become so essential in our existence as a species? Same rhetoric can be applied to Common dialog boxes in our programs.