What's Missing?

You can see that the wizard did a lot of work for you, but a lot of work remains to be done. The wizard created an application that does the following:

• A standard program window appears that you can resize, move, and close.
• A status bar displays the date and time. You can turn on and off the status bar from the view menu.
• A working menu appears with four options. Only the Help, About menu option works. The about dialog box follows the standard Windows convention of displaying system information when you click its System info button.
• The usual menu options, such as File, Open (produces a windows file open dialog box)
• The Edit, Cut option requires the code to be inserted.
• A standard toolbar appears that you can add functionality to and turn on and off from the view menu.

In this chapter, you learned the background needed for programming and you used the Visual Basic Application Wizard to generate a skeletal SDI application. The program had a complete user interface but very limited functionality.