Survey and polling tools are often used in marketing or politics to assess rating for certain services or products. Polling tools can take many forms, some just use a simple dichotomous scale of Yes and No, or Likert Scale that consists of three or more choices. You can create Polling tool in Visual Basic easily by using the option buttons. In my program, I give the users five choices, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Satisfactory and Bad. Then the results are presented in frequency and percentage respectively. In the example on the right, I have included graphical display of the percentages of the five scores using the Line method. The general format to draw the rectangular bar in a picture box is Picture1.Line (x1, y1)-(x2, y2), color, BF where (x1,y1) is the coordinates of the upper left corner of the bar and (x2,y2) is the coordinates of the lower right corner of the bar. To show the bar length according to the percentage, I use certain value to multiply the decimal value of each score and put it under x2. And I use the Picture1.Cls method to clear the picture box in order to refresh the drawing.

Dim total, Excel_total, VG_total, G_total, Sat_total, Bad_total As Integer Dim Excel_percent, VG_percent, G_percent, Sat_percent, Bad_percent As Single Dim done As Boolean Private Sub cmd_Vote_Click() Picture1.Cls If Option_Excel.Value = True Then Excel_total = Excel_total + 1 Lbl_ExcelTotal = Excel_total ElseIf Option_VG.Value = True Then VG_total = VG_total + 1 Lbl_VGTotal = VG_total ElseIf Option_G.Value = True Then G_total = G_total + 1 Lbl_GTotal = G_total ElseIf Option_Sat.Value = True Then Sat_total = Sat_total + 1 Lbl_SatTotal = Sat_total ElseIf Option_Bad.Value = True Then Bad_total = Bad_total + 1 Lbl_BadTotal = Bad_total End If total = Excel_total + VG_total + G_total + Sat_total + Bad_total Lbl_Total = total Excel_percent = Excel_total / total VG_percent = VG_total / total G_percent = G_total / total Sat_percent = Sat_total / total Bad_percent = Bad_total / total Lbl_Excel.Caption = Format(Excel_percent, "Percent") Lbl_VG.Caption = Format(VG_percent, "Percent") Lbl_G.Caption = Format(G_percent, "Percent") Lbl_Sat.Caption = Format(Sat_percent, "Percent") Lbl_Bad.Caption = Format(Bad_percent, "Percent") Picture1.Line (100, 750)-(3800 * Excel_percent, 950), vbRed, BF Picture1.Line (100, 1450)-(3800 * VG_percent, 1650), vbMagenta, BF Picture1.Line (100, 2150)-(3800 * G_percent, 2350), vbGreen, BF Picture1.Line (100, 2850)-(3800 * Sat_percent, 3050), vbBlue, BF Picture1.Line (100, 3550)-(3800 * Bad_percent, 3750), vbYellow, BF End Sub