Variable Identification

Does anyone know how to re-initiate the option within VB that when tabbing through the program, when your cursor is over a variable, it gives you the name of the variable or what it represents?
Thanks

I don't understand your question.

I think he's talking about Breakpoints???

Try in tools->options->Editor tab->code settings frame.

Not sure if this will do it, as i didn't know you could disable that.

To illistrate what he want's to enable, put this in a new form

VB Code:

Dim a As Integer
Private Sub Form_Load()
a = 50
Print a
End Sub

Make 'Print a' a breakpoint. Run it, then hover your mouse over a. A tooltip box will pop up displaying the variable's value (50).

Yeah... but as far as I know you can't turn that off. And I don't know what "tabbing through a program" means and the name of the variable is the name of the variable. So you're probably right, but what he asked isn't even possible. :)

I didn't think it was...


When the program has stopped at a breakpoint press F8 (which is, i think what he means by tabbing through the program).

as I said in the other thread, the option is apparently "auto data tips"...

So he wants to know how to get the value of a variable in break mode when stepping through the program. Maybe we need a sticky thread entitled "How to speak VB." :)

I've never seen a place to turn that off. Maybe a registry setting or something. It might turn off automatically if low on memory as well.

Maybe he's killing the program instead of breaking execution.

OK, ignore my last post. SI says it can be done. At least I know what the question was. :p

:D one of those questions that most of us would ever need to know the answer to, as we don't bother to change the options too often!

Of course he could just do

?Expression/VariableName

in the immidiate window.

Quote:

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Originally posted by SLH
Of course he could just do

?Expression/VariableName

in the immidiate window.

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you expect a coder to go to that much effort??? :eek:

come on, we cant have that! ;)

:D