How to Speed up Alignment of Controls with Triple-Click

 Last reviewed: July 11, 1996
Article ID: Q153306
The information in this article applies to:
  • Standard,Professional,and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows, 16-bit and 32-bit, version 4.0

SUMMARY

When you are in the design environment placing controls on a form, it is often useful to size a set of controls to the same size or align a set of controls to the same Top or Left edge. The triple click feature in Visual Basic 4.0 gives you this functionality. The step-by-step example in this article shows how to set the left alignment and size properties for a set of text boxes to the same values.

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Step-by-Step Example

1.Start a new Visual Basic project. Form1 is created by default.

2.Place three text boxes on Form1 named Text1, Text2, and Text3.

3.Position and size the text boxes so that they are different sizes and 

  don't line up on the left edge.
4.Select one of the text boxes. Hold down the CTRL key, and click the other 
   two text boxes. All three text boxes should be highlighted.
5.Press F4 to show the Properties window. Go to the Left Property and 
  triple-click the word Left. All the text boxes should now have the same
  Left property and therefore line up on the left side.
6.In the Properties window, triple-click the word Height. and then triple- 
  click the word Width. All the text boxes will now be the same size.

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Last reviewed: July 11, 1996
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