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264 Day 7
Exercises
1. Place five edit components on a form and arrange them so that they are stacked
vertically with their left edges aligned.
2. Turn off the Snap to Grid option (choose Tools | Options from the main menu).
Place five controls of your choice on a form and align their right edges.
3. Place a ListBox component on a blank form and modify it so that it always
occupies the entire client area of the form.
4. Add an About box to the ScratchPad program. Use the Alignment Palette to
quickly align the text labels.
5. Add an Undo item and a menu separator to the speed menu for the ScratchPad
program.
6. Start a new application. Place six edit components on a form in random fashion.
Now arrange the tab order so that tabbing proceeds from top to bottom. Run the
program to test the tabbing order.
7. Add speedbar buttons for Cut, Copy, and Paste to the ScratchPad program, as well
as any others you want to add. Assign the menu event handlers for the same
functions to the speed buttons.
8. Add the Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut to the File | Save menu item in the ScratchPad
program.
9. Open the Picture Viewer project you created on Day 6, “The C++Builder IDE
Explored: Projects and Forms.” Remove all unused menu items.