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Video Bonanza Assignment 7

The Video Bonanza firm has hired you as a temporary programmer consultant from the VB Auto Center. You're to write a program that will enable the firm to maintain a list of movie categories. The main form for the program should look similar to the one shown here:

Project Requirements:

At Design Mode:

• All buttons shown are enabled and include hot keys (you pick the hot keys).
• The form must have menus so that a system user can either click a menu option or click a button. The menu options are shown in this table. Note the separator line under the Edit menu. All menus are enabled and include hot keys as indicated in the table below.
• The code for the menus is a Call statement to the code for the buttons. Do not duplicate the programming code unnecessarily.

&File &Print the Category List E&xit

&Edit &Clear Category Listing ____________ &Add a Category &Remove a Category &Display Category Count

• Movie categories are displayed in a drop-down combo box.
• The categories that should be displayed in the list are: Comedy, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi, and Horror.
• Keep the list of movie categories sorted in alphabetic order.

On Startup:

• No movie category is displayed in the combo box.

During Execution:

• Add a Category button/menu. The system user will enter a new movie category into the drop down combo box's text box area. Clicking either the button or menu will allow the system user to save a new movie category to the drop down combo box.
• If no movie category has been typed into the combo box's text box area (it is blank), display an error message – use the MessageBox and provide an appropriate box caption, message, and icon.
• Do not allow a blank movie category to be added to the list.
• Do not allow a duplicate movie category to be added to the list.
• Enable the Remove a Category and Clear Category Listing button and menu options if they are disabled (see below).
• Remove a Category button/menu. The system user will select a movie category then click either the button or menu and the category should be removed from the list.
• Display an error message if the system user did not first select a movie category – use the MessageBox and provide an appropriate box caption, message, and icon.
• Disable both the Remove a Category button and menu if the last movie category is removed from the list (the list is empty).
• Disable both the Clear Category Listing button and menu if the last movie category is removed from the list (the list is empty).
• Display Category Count button/menu. Display a message box with the count of the number of movie categories that are stored in the combo box.
• Clear Category Listing button/menu.
• Clear all movie categories from the combo box (the list will be empty). Before clearing the list, display a message box to confirm that the list is to be cleared.
• Disable both the Remove a Category button and menu if the last movie category is removed from the list (the list is empty).
• Disable both the Clear Category Listing button and menu if the last movie category is removed from the list (the list is empty).
• Print the Category List button/menu.
• Display a printed listing of the movie categories in the Print Preview dialog box.
• Include your name and a heading at the top of the report listing.
• Exit button/menu. Exit the system by closing the form.

See the grading form for additional design requirements.