Visual basic for electronics engineering applications

Copyright Notice......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 3
The Basics of Visual Basic ( Part I )......Page 17
Ch 1 - The Visual Basic Background......Page 23
Ch1.1 Windows......Page 24
Ch1.2 Object Oriented Programming......Page 25
Ch1.4 Overview of the Definitions......Page 26
Ch2.1 Starting a Visual Basic Project......Page 29
Ch2.2 The programming environment......Page 31
Ch3.1 The Form......Page 37
Ch3.2 The controls......Page 38
Ch3.3 The standard controls in Visual Basic......Page 40
Ch3.4 Common Controls......Page 41
Ch3.6 Communication control......Page 42
Ch3.7 Menu\'s......Page 43
Ch3.8 Properties......Page 44
Ch4.1 Tapping into Events......Page 49
Ch4.2 Methods......Page 54
Ch 5 - The Basic Language itself......Page 57
Ch5.1 Variables......Page 59
Ch 5.2 Arrays......Page 62
Ch 5.3 Types......Page 69
Ch 5.4 Scope of variables......Page 72
Ch 5.5 Module level scope......Page 73
Ch 5.6 Subroutines and Functions......Page 74
Ch 5.7 Scope of procedures......Page 76
Ch 5.8 constants......Page 77
Ch 5.9 Numerical Operators......Page 79
Ch 5.10 Base conversion......Page 80
Ch 5.12 Flow control......Page 81
Ch 5.13 string manipulation......Page 88
Ch 5.14 File manipulation......Page 91
Ch 6.1 Creating the Form......Page 99
Ch 6.2 Arrays of Objects and Controls......Page 101
Ch 7.1 Attaching code to Objects......Page 103
Ch 7.2 Let\'s attach some code......Page 104
Ch 8.1 running a program......Page 107
Ch 8.2 Debugging a program......Page 108
Ch 8.3 Examining Variables......Page 109
Ch 8.4 Advanced debugging : the watch window......Page 110
Ch 8.5 Using breakpoints......Page 116
Ch 8.6 the debug object......Page 117
Ch 9.1 The first steps......Page 119
Ch 9.2 specifying the media......Page 122
Ch 10.1 Multiple Forms......Page 125
Ch 10.3 Accessing items from other parts......Page 127
Ch 10.4 Root structure of a project......Page 129
Ch 11 - A couple of Case studies......Page 131
Study 1 : A small text editor......Page 133
Study 2 : A Calculator......Page 143
The Advanced World of Visual Basic ( PART II )......Page 155
Ch 12.1 Forms......Page 159
Ch 12.2 Menu\'s......Page 167
Ch 12.3 Modifying Menus from code......Page 170
Ch 12.4 Special menu features......Page 173
Ch 12.5 Option selectors......Page 175
Ch 12.6 Timer objects......Page 180
Ch 12.7 User entry objects......Page 182
Ch 12.8 Printing......Page 185
Ch 12.9 Taking advantag of the windows look......Page 186
Ch 13.1 Basic coordinate operations......Page 189
Ch 13.2 Drawing setup......Page 190
Ch 13.3 Drawing primitives......Page 196
Ch 13.4 Saving and loading graphics......Page 200
Ch 13.5 Coordinate systems......Page 203
Ch 14.1 Sendkeys......Page 209
Ch 14.2 DDE : Dynamic Data exchange......Page 215
Ch 14.3 Serial Communication......Page 224
Ch 14.4 Winsock : Ethernet control......Page 234
More case studies......Page 241
Study 3 : Doodle, a drawing program......Page 243
Study 4 : Data terminal for serial communication......Page 251
Study 5 : alphaserve : a TELNET server......Page 259
Study 6 : Talking to Excel......Page 261
Master Programming ( PART III )......Page 265
Ch 15.1 DLL\'s......Page 269
Ch 15.2 Accesing DLL routines......Page 271
Ch 15.3 on passing parameters .........Page 273
Ch 15.4 API programming......Page 275
Ch 16 - ActiveX control creation......Page 281
Ch 16.1 Creating an activeX object......Page 282
Ch 16.2 Adding proprty\'s and events......Page 288
Ch 16.3 What the Wizard came up with......Page 298
Ch 16.4 A closer look to the final code......Page 300
Ch 17 - Building Better programs......Page 305
Ch 17.1 The KISS way......Page 306
Ch 17.2 atomic Programming......Page 310
Ch 17.3 Naming objects......Page 312
Ch 17.3 Error handling......Page 313
Ch 18.1 Digging into the registry......Page 327
Ch 18.2 Data mining in the registry......Page 329
Ch 18.3 Make use of the registry......Page 331
Ch 19.1 Building a simple scripting interpreter......Page 335
Ch 19.2 MSScript : a real script interpreter......Page 343
Ch 20.1 The Class concept......Page 349
Ch 20.2 Creating a Class......Page 350
Ch 20.3 Instantiating objects from a class......Page 351
Ch 20.4 a practical example......Page 352
Yet more case studies......Page 355
Study 7 : Killing Windows with API calls......Page 357
Study 8 : The LED ActiveX control......Page 359
Study 9 : MiniBasic, a program environment for MSscript......Page 367
Study 10 : Additional notes on the use of Classs......Page 373
Visual Basic in the Lab ( PART IV )......Page 377
Ch 20.1 The PC a historical overview......Page 381
Ch 20.2 The PC a hardware description......Page 382
Ch 20.3 The PC\'s input and output components......Page 385
Ch 20.4 The Internal Buses......Page 391
Ch 21.1 Finding the IO ports......Page 395
Ch 21.2 Hardware access......Page 400
Ch 22.1 Functional Diagram......Page 403
Ch 22.2 Register Level Description......Page 404
Ch 22.3 Basic operation......Page 407
Ch 22.4 Bitbanging interfaces......Page 408
Ch 22.5 Printport Classwork......Page 412
Ch 22.6 special printport modes......Page 413
Ch 23.1 System description......Page 421
Ch 23.3 Flow control......Page 422
Ch 23.4 The UART......Page 425
Ch 23.5 RS232......Page 431
Ch 23.6 Cabling......Page 437
Ch 23.6 Basic Serial Operations......Page 438
Ch 24.1 Description of the ISA bus......Page 441
CH 24.2 Common interface chips......Page 443
Ch 24.3 interfacing to ISA......Page 446
Ch 25.1 THe GPIB bus structure......Page 459
Ch 25.2 GPIB signals......Page 461
Ch 25.3 controlling a device on GPIB......Page 467
Ch 25.4 IEEE488.2......Page 469
Ch25.5 SCPI......Page 471
Ch 26 - VISION : an instrumentation system......Page 475
Ch 26.1 GPIBcore......Page 477
Ch 26.1 GPIBcore functions......Page 479
Ch 26.2 GPIBcore I/O functions......Page 487
Ch 26.3 GPIBcore Miscellaneous support functions......Page 489
Ch 26.5 Instrument and I/O libraries......Page 498
Ch 26.6 CLASSwork......Page 500
Ch 26.7 General rules for CLASSwork module development......Page 509
Ch 26.8 TestBench......Page 514
Ch 27.1 Clean code......Page 516
Ch 27.3 Collecting versus analysing......Page 518
Ch 27.4 creating log files......Page 519
Ch 27.4 anatomy of a well structured test program......Page 520
Ch 28.1 stream interpreting......Page 522
Ch 28.1 report generation on a printer......Page 527
Ch 29.1 building splash screens......Page 532
Ch 29.2 Constructing the main form......Page 534
Ch 29.3 organising objects and controls......Page 537
Ch 29.5 Help files......Page 538
Ch 30 : some more case studies......Page 540
Study 11 : Building a U/I plotter using Testbench......Page 541
Study 12 : an SPI interface on LPT......Page 542
Study 13 : Export to file......Page 548
Study 14 : U/I plotter using GPIBcore......Page 552