Tutors Sue Cahill and Colin Duley

Naming control

When you place controls onto a form when designing a VB program, you should change the name property of all the controls and the form to something meaningful.

The first three letters (prefix) of the name indicate the type of control.

e.g.1)  a form for the calculation of a payslip could be renamed frmPayslip

e.g.2)  a text box for displaying the date could be renamed txtDate

Naming conventions for controls used in VB
 

Control	Three letter prefix
Form	frm
Check box	chk
Combo box	cbo
Command button	cmd
Dir list box	dir
Drive list box	drv
File list box	fil
Frame	fra
Horizontal scroll bar	hsb
Image	img
Label	lbl
List box	lst
Menu	mnu
Option button	opt
Picture box	pic
Shape	shp
Text box	txt
Timer	tmr
Vertical scroll bar	vsb

Task

Suggest a suitable setting for the Name property of the controls described below:

1) A command button used to quit a program

2) A text box that displays the name of a customer

3) A picture box used to display the logo of a company