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Chapter 4 Working with Menus, Toolbars, and Dialog Boxes 103

3. Set the following properties for the label:

Object Property Setting

Label1 AutoSize

BorderStyle

Font

Text

TextAlign

False

FixedSingle

Microsoft Sans Serif, Bold, 24-point

(empty)

MiddleCenter

4. Resize the label object so that it is much larger (it will be holding clock and date values),
   and position it in the center of the form. Your form should look similar to the following:

Now you’ll add program statements to the Time and Date event procedures to process the

menu commands.

Note In the following exercises, you’ll enter program code to process menu choices. It’s OK if

you’re still a bit hazy on what program code does and how you use it—you’ll learn much more

about program statements in Chapters 5 through 7.

Edit the menu event procedures

1. Click the Clock menu on the form to display its commands.


2. Double-click the Time command in the menu to open an event procedure for the
   command in the Code Editor.
   The TimeToolStripMenuItem_Click event procedure appears in the Code Editor. The
   name TimeToolStripMenuItem_Click includes the name “Time” that you gave this menu
   command. The words ToolStripMenuItem indicate that in its underlying technology, the