Weekly Status Report #8 (March 26 - March 30)

This week, we only created one program. This program was the payroll one. At first we the program just calculated the payroll with a specified tax and hourly rate. Later on, we added more features to it like a menu strip and a dialog box. After the user uses the menu strip to open the dialog box, they were then able to change the hourly and tax rates for 3 different groups of hours.

This program wasn't very tricky until the information from the dialog box was sent to code for the main form. The problem was that when you clicked on "ok" on the dialog box, the form couldn't read it so the output was always be wrong. On Friday, my teacher found the mistake with the program. It was in the code that was written on the page. The fix was that instead of dlgHourlyRate.Show() it had to be dlgHourlyRate.ShowDialog(). After I found this out I was able to make the Hourly rate and the tax dialog boxes to work.

I am really starting to like TIK. The more that the computer programs get more complicated, the more interesting they become and the more I have to think. I really like challenges and this was definitely a challenge. Next week, we get our groups for the group projecta nd I hope we get to choose our own groups. Bye!