First of all, I am NOT a programmer, this is something my friend taught me. It describes basic interaction with the user, while showing basic functionality of this simple programm. So, without further ado, we're off to the tutorial:

First of all, start your visual basic, when prompted for new project, select Standard Exe. Next, we need to open code window, so we can start typing the program. This can be done in two ways, one is double clicking on the form, or selecting Code from View menu.

If you double clicked on the form, you will see following text:If you don't see it, you will need to type it by hand. You will only need to type the first line (Private Sub Form_Load()), the last line, visual basic will add automaticaly (End Sub).

Next, we need to declare variables we will use in our program. Here's the next piece of code:This part is simple, we only prepare variables for use (I know there is more technical explanation for this, but I can't remember ).

Now, we need to read username and password from the file. Now, for this example, we will use simple text file. You can create it using notepad (I don't think you need a tutorial on that ). In that file, write the username you want, and in next line, write the password. Now, add the following code:

Now that we have done this, we can proceed with basic interaction with the user:
First, we ask a user, to enter his full name, so we can know how to address him/her. If the user doesn't enter his/hers name, we will tell him he/she needs to enter it, or to quit the program. I believe the code is very self explainatory.

Next, we will prompt for user name. This is the information that we need for successfull login.
This is basicaly the same thing we used for prompting for full name, just with different variables.

Next, we ask the user to enter his/hers password, to authenticate into system:
OK, I guess you noticed this is the same thing I used in two earlier segments of programm. I was told it can be done with functions or subs, but I haven't learned it yet I guess I'll post another tutorial when I learn how to do that

OK, we're almost done. All we have to do is check if username and passwords match, and if that is the case, we can proeed with programm. If not, we tell the user he/she made a mistake, and exit the programm. Here is the programm for that segment:
Here, we check if saved username is the one entered, and if the saved password is the one entered. If they match, we allow the user to access the programm, if not, we tell him/her there is an error, and exit the programm.

I learned this recently, and I hope I passed that knowledge to some of you..

Hey, Nice tutorial. But it seems only one user that can login!. It's better if we can use new way, so not only one user that can use the program. Anyone has an idea?, I'm not good in Visual Basic 6

I've used VB6 for 9 years. I'll post the code for how I would do it, however I'm sure there is more than just one way to create a simple login system. It'll just take a couple changes to the kitty's code to implement other users.

We can copy the first part of kitty's code right into the form almost without changes. Here it is:


The only real difference between my code and his/her's is that Saved_Name and Saved_Pass are now arrays. Arrays can hold more than one value, each value in an array is given a number.



The ReDim statement resizes the array (creates more elements). The Preserve in the ReDim statement means to make sure the data originally in the array stays there. Without the preserve statement, only the last username and password would be in the array, all the others would be "" or NULL.

The next bit of code stays the same.



So does the next bit




and the next bit



Finally something actually changes!!



Place all this code together and it will work fine! Feel free to PM me with any questions you may have.


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Very very good, I will try it soon. Thanks ghost!

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