VFW054 Edit Text in a Memo Edit Box

VLF Windows Application Development

VFW054 – Edit Text in a Memo / Edit Box

Objective

  • To demonstrate how a multi-line edit box can be used
  • To build the Employee Brief Notes command handler, which will use the Multi-line edit box component to create, save and display text for an employee. When an employee is selected in the instance list, the Brief Notes command handler will retrieve the text and populates the multi-line edit box
  • To learn how to use Save and Delete buttons, enabling notes to be saved or deleted.
  • To create a simple file to store the notes data.

To achieve these objectives you will complete the following:

Step 1. Create a Table to Store Employee Notes

Step 2. Create Brief Notes Command Handler

Step 3. Create the Command Handler Logic

Step 4. Implement Memo Box Copy/Paste Methods (Optional)

Summary