Visual Programming

Statements in Visual Basic

 Objectives

Boolean Variables and Expressions

Input box
What Are Conditional Statements?
Using AND and OR in Boolean Expressions
Using the NOT operator
 Boolean Variables
Boolean variable stores one of the following
constant values: "True", or "False".

For example:
Dim Kuku As Boolean
Kuku = True
Dim YoYo As Boolean
YoYo = False

What are the True and False stand for?

They are the result of every "Boolean expression”
Examples - Boolean Expressions

Boolean expression is like a question that the answer to it is " True"

or "False"
For example:
•Is 4 Plus 6 is 10? True
•Is 2 bigger than 4? False
But the question
How much is 4 Plus 6?
•Is not a boolean expression, because its answer
•is 10 (and not True or False)
Examples of Boolean expressions in the next slide
Examples - Boolean Expressions

The following code:

Dim ABC As Boolean

ABC = (3 > 4)
Print ABC

Will print "False" on the form.

The value of the Boolean expression 3 > 4
is "False", because 3 is not greater than 4.
4
 Examples - Boolean Expressions
• The following code:

Dim ABC As Boolean

ABC = ("abf" = "abf")
Print ABC

Will print "True" on the form.

The value of the boolean expression "abf" = "abf“ is "True", because
"abf" is equal to "abf"
 Examples - Boolean Expressions
Will print "True" on the form,
• The following code: because the value of the Boolean expression
Dim ABC As Boolean (A + 1 = B) is "True".
In Boolean expressions you can use the
Dim A As Integer following signs:
= Equal to
Dim B As Integer <> Not Equal to
> Greater than
A=1 < Smaller than
>= Greater than or Equal to
B=2 <= Smaller than or Equal to
ABC = (A + 1 = B)
Print ABC
 INPUT BOX

• InputBox
• In the next examples we want to receive a value from the user when the
program is running.
• To do so we will use the InputBox command.
The InputBox command syntax is:
VariableName = InputBox ("Text to Display")
• After executing this command, the variable will get the value that the user has
entered.
• Example:
• Put 1 Command button on your form and
• enter the following code to its click event:
Dim Elvis As String
Elvis = InputBox("Please Enter your name")
Print Elvis
• Run the program and click the button. A Message Box is appearing with the
• text "Please Enter your name“ as in Figure 1
 Conditional Statements

• The syntax of the conditional statement:

If (boolean expression) Then

The code to execute if the boolean expression is equal to True
Else
The code to execute if the boolean expression is equal to False
End If

• Lets make a password protected program. We want to prompt

the user to enter the password at the very start of the program,
so put the following code in the Form_Load event:

Dim Password As String

Password = InputBox("Please enter the password")
If (Password = "let me in") Then
MsgBox "The Password is correct!"
Else
MsgBox "Incorrect Password!"
End If
 Using "And" and "Or" In Boolean
Expressions
• How can we make a boolean expression that will be "True"
if the Password is "let me in" or "sam sent me“ ?

Put the following code in your Form_Load event:

Dim Password As String

Password = InputBox("Please enter the password")
If (Password = "let me in") Or (Password = "sam sent
me") Then Lets see what effect has the "Or" operator on the boolean expression we used:
MsgBox "The Password is correct!" (Password = "let me in") Or (Password = "sam sent me")
First, the left and right boolean expressions
Else are being evaluated
For example, if the Password is "let me in" then
MsgBox "Incorrect Password!" (Password = "let me in") is True
End and (Password = "sam sent me") is False.
False.
Then the boolean expression is look like this:
End If (True) Or (False)
True Or False = True
So the final result of the expression is True .

Run the program.

Using "And" and "Or" In Boolean Expressions
This code will pop up two InputBoxes.
The first will ask you to enter the user name, and the second will
ask you to enter the password.

The login will be correct only if both user name and password are
correct. The boolean expression (Password = "let me in") And
(UserName = "elvis") is True only if (Password = "let me in") is True,
and (UserName = "elvis") is True, because True And True = True,
• and any other combination is equal to False.
The "And" operator is similar to the "Or“ operator, except it has different Effects on boolean expressions:
True And True = True
True And False = False
False And True = False
False And False = False
For example, copy the following code to your Form_Load event:
Dim UserName As String
Dim Password As String
UserName = InputBox("Please enter the user name")
Password = InputBox("Please enter the password")
If (Password = "let me in") And (UserName = "elvis") Then
MsgBox "The login is correct!"
Else
MsgBox "Incorrect Login!"
End
End If
 Using The "Not" Operator
• Lets see an example of using the operator "Not".
• Copy the following code to your Form_Load event:
Dim Password As String
Password = InputBox("Please enter the password")
If Not (Password = "let me in") Then
MsgBox "Incorrect Password!"
End
End If

The boolean expression: Not (Password = "let me in") is True only if the
Password is not "let me in". Why?

If the Password is not "let me in",(Password = "let me in") is False ,

and we get the boolean expression: Not (False).Not False = True, so eventually,
the expression value is True