PowerBasic Snippets - Tutorial on Graphics control as Toolbar

Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

In this series of videos, which are aimed at those who have never coded in PowerBasic before, I cover one element of the language or programming - today we're using some of the techniques created in the Sub classing series to create a Toolbar out of a graphics control in PowerBasic for Windows and DDT.

This is a follow-up to youtu.be/-vO0Bih8IQg

00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Preparing a Dialog and Toolbar
08:37 - Initial test
09:00 - Adding click events
16:40 - Adding three more buttons
19:01 - Final testing
19:43 - Summary

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