Creating a Function to Convert Numbers into Roman Numerals

Saturday, March 27, 2010 ·



To create a number of letters we often use roman numerals to indicate the month of making the letter.For example, the letter number is '001/Int/III/2010' where the symbol 'III' indicates that the letter was made in March 2010.

For this we need a function that can convert an integer number from 1 to 12 into roman numerals. In the Visual Basic programming, we can easily create such a function. Well, here we'll show an example program to create such functions, as well as examples of how to use it.

  • First open your VB program and select standard exe form
  • Click the View menu
  • Click the Code menu


  • Write the Visual Basic (VB) program code below

    Function IToR(i As Integer) As String Dim s As String s = "I II III IV V VI VII VIIIIX X XI XII " IToR = Mid(s, (i - 1) * 4 + 1, 4) End Function


  • Click the View menu
  • Click the Object menu
  • Put two label controls, two textboxes and a CommandButton to the form
  • Change the Caption of first label into 'Month'
  • Change the Caption of second label into 'Roman Numeral'
  • Change the name of the first textbox into 'txtMonth'
  • Change the name of the second textbox into 'txtRomNum'
  • Remove texts on the first and second textboxes
  • Change the name of the CommandButton into 'cmdConvert'
  • Change the CommandButton caption into 'Convert'
    So your Screen design will look like the image below:


  • Double click CommandButton 'Convert'
  • Write below Visual Basic (VB) program coding

    Private Sub cmdConvert_Click() txtRomNum.Text = IToR(Val(txtMonth.Text)) End Sub


    Okay, you have completed the program
    Now it's time to test
  • Run your program
  • Type a number such as 8 in the first textbox
  • Click CommandButton 'Convert'
    Consider the results


  • 3 comments:

    Anonymous said...
    April 28, 2010 at 6:30 PM  

    hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....

    Free VB Tips said...
    April 29, 2010 at 10:46 PM  

    Halo Hapi, thank's for your visit.

    Alex said...
    September 19, 2010 at 10:25 PM  

    A nice tutorial. Happy blogging.
    Can you post tutorial how to print with VB program?

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