Visual Basic

Lesson 5- Building a Program, Pt 1

Now, we are going to build a functional program together! We'll use everything you know so far. Here in part 1, we will create the form. In part 2, we will code.

Step 1:

Start a new project, just like how I showed you. Name it movie_calculator .

Step 2:

We're gonna build a movie calculator. Imagine you're at the movies and you order a ticket, candy, popcorn, and drink. This program will add it all up to give you a "receipt!" This is what I want you to add:

• 2 labels for tickets: Adult ($7.00), and Child ($5.00). Add text boxes with them too. Make sure you set the text to 0 for all of your text boxes. You'll notice that in my example.
• GroupBox for popcorn. (Hint: You can find the GroupBox under the Containers subheading in the ToolBox) Add RadioButtons for sizes small ($3.50), medium($5.00), and jumbo($8.50).
• GroupBox for drinks. Add labels for large ($6.00) and medium ($4.50). Add text boxes next to them for quantity.
• GroupBox for candy. In check boxes, add 3 candies of your choice with prices.
• A receipt in a GroupBox. In that receipt, I want a Ticket Total, Popcorn Total, Candy Total, Drink Total, and an overall Total. These will be in labels. Add labels next to those and set the text to 0.
• Button for calculations.
• Make it neat!! Add your own fonts and a nice background color!

When you are finished it should look like mine:

This image is here for you to reference, not copy! Make it your own!

Step 3:

Now, let's assign Names. Here is where you'll need to add names:

• In the 2 text boxes for the tickets (Hint: I'll help with the first one. Call it txtadtick.)
• In the 2 text boxes for the drinks.
• All of the check boxes. (Hint: I'll help with this too. Notice how my first candy is skittles? Well, I named it chkskit.)
• All of the labels next to the totals. Meaning, all of the 0's need a name. (Hint: I named my ticket total lbltick, the popcorn total lblpop, and so on.)