Visual Basic Tutorial 15 October 2005

The goal of this project is to get you started with Visual Basic as a prototyping tool. We do not expect you to become black belts in one class!

Your assignment is to:

Implement the GUI below in appearance, i.e. make something that looks like the picture.
When different "messages" are selected in the "list-of-messages" pane, the text in the "body" pane should change. These messages can be (and, in the interest of time should be) totally faked. We do not expect you to implement a full email client in two hours.

Useful things to know:

The controls that you need are at https://bugs.cs.ubc.ca/twiki/pub/Imager/Proto-vb-static/tutorial1handout.zip .
There a bunch of images included that you might want to use. They are located at @@@. Put them into a Collection at @@@, and then you will be able to use them in @@@.
To make hotkeys, put an ampersand in front of the key you want to make hot. For example, if you want Control-L to be a shortcut for the menu option "Fromble", then when you name the Fromble menu item, type in "Fromb&le".
To make separators in a toolbar, do this: @@@
(something about menus)
(? did they have to drag something into the window in order to get started?)