Visual Basic  Glossary

 

MDI

Stands for Multiple Document Interface. An MDI form can load many child forms into it.

   
Mid The function that extracts a substring from the original phrase. The format is  Mid(phrase, position, n), where position is the starting position of the phrase from which the extraction process starts and n is the number of characters to be extracted.  e.g  Mid("Visual Basic",3,6)=ual Bas
Mod

This is called modulus operator. It yields the remainder after Integer division.

MsgBox

A function that produce a popup message box and prompt the user to click on a command button.

The format is    message=MsgBox(Prompt, Style Value, Title)

Move

It is a method that move an object to a particular position.

The format is

                    Qbject1.Move X,Y   where X,Y is the coordinate on the screen.

Example:       Picture1.Move 1000,1000

 

 

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