' The MIT License (MIT) ' ' Copyright (C) 2026 Scott Duensing ' ' Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy ' of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to ' deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the ' rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or ' sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is ' furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: ' ' The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in ' all copies or substantial portions of the Software. ' ' THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR ' IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, ' FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ' AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER ' LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING ' FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS ' IN THE SOFTWARE. ' dynform.bas -- Dynamic Form Demo ' ' Demonstrates building a complete form entirely in code ' with no .frm file needed: ' CreateForm - create a form programmatically ' CreateControl - add controls with optional parent ' SetEvent - bind events to arbitrary handlers ' RemoveControl - remove a control at runtime ' Optional params - language extension for optional arguments ' ' Add commdlg.bas to your project, then click Run. DIM frm AS LONG DIM lbl AS LONG DIM btnBar AS LONG ' Create a form entirely from code SET frm = CreateForm("DynDemo", 350, 200) frm.Caption = "Dynamic Form Demo" ' Add a label at the top SET lbl = CreateControl(frm, "Label", "StatusLabel") StatusLabel.Caption = "Built entirely in code!" ' Add a horizontal button bar container SET btnBar = CreateControl(frm, "HBox", "ButtonBar") ' Add buttons inside the HBox, using the optional parent parameter DIM btnHello AS LONG SET btnHello = CreateControl(frm, "CommandButton", "BtnHello", btnBar) BtnHello.Caption = "Hello" DIM btnFile AS LONG SET btnFile = CreateControl(frm, "CommandButton", "BtnFile", btnBar) BtnFile.Caption = "Open File..." DIM btnRemove AS LONG SET btnRemove = CreateControl(frm, "CommandButton", "BtnRemove", btnBar) BtnRemove.Caption = "Remove Me" ' Wire events to custom handler names using SetEvent SetEvent btnHello, "Click", "OnHelloClick" SetEvent btnFile, "Click", "OnFileClick" SetEvent btnRemove, "Click", "OnRemoveClick" frm.Show PRINT "Dynamic form created. Try the buttons!" SUB OnHelloClick DIM name AS STRING name = basInputBox2("Greeting", "What is your name?", "World") IF name <> "" THEN StatusLabel.Caption = "Hello, " + name + "!" PRINT "Greeted: " + name END IF END SUB SUB OnFileClick DIM path AS STRING path = basFileOpen("Open a File", "All Files (*.*)") IF path <> "" THEN StatusLabel.Caption = "Selected: " + path PRINT "File: " + path ELSE StatusLabel.Caption = "No file selected." END IF END SUB SUB OnRemoveClick StatusLabel.Caption = "Button removed!" RemoveControl frm, "BtnRemove" PRINT "BtnRemove removed from form." END SUB