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C++ Class Frameworks and the Visual Component Model
1. Change the Name property to PMEForm (PME for “properties, methods, and events”).
2. Change the Caption property to PME Test Program.
Next we need to add a memo component to the form:
1. Choose the Standard tab on the Component Palette and click the Memo button.
2. Click on the form to place a memo component on the form.
3. Change the Name property to Memo. Be sure the memo component is selected so you
don’t accidentally change the name of the form rather than the memo component.
4. Double-click on the Lines property in the value column. The String list editor will
be displayed.
5. Delete the word Memo and type A test program using properties, methods, and
events. Click OK to close the String list editor.
6. Resize the memo component so that it occupies most of the form. Leave room for a
button at the bottom.
Your form should now look something like the form shown in Figure 5.2.
Figure 5.2.
The form with a
memo component
added.
Now let’s place a button on the form:
1. Choose the Standard tab on the Component Palette and click the Button component
button.
2. Click on the form below the memo component to place the button on the form.
3. Change the Name property for the button to Button.
4. Change the Caption property to Show/Hide.
5. Center the button on the form.
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