Quirky behavior of "Autolist members" when editing code

[BruceG]

Has anyone had this problem, and if so, do you know what causes it?:

Occasionally when editing code, the autolist members don't show up when you expect them to - for example, when typing a dot after an object, or the parameters of a sub or function don't display when you are coding a call to it (even though to the best of my knowledge all references are in place and the item is spelled correctly). This seems to be an intermittent problem.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

[S@NSIS]

Hi,
VB works pretty fine with this when objects are early-bound (ie. when you create a reference through Project>References), however, it doesn't work at all when you use late bound references (especially using CreateObject calls). Apart from that I can't think of any other examples that might stop it from working.

Hope this helps

Shaun

[parksie]

On my copy of VB5, it doesn't pop up the function definitions for Left and Right unless I use them as Strings.Left and Strings.Right.

Certain types of errors in code make the autolist thing stop working. Often the error can be in a completly unrelated class, usually its a bad declaration or something. Fix the errors, and the intellisense works again.

Every so often, I also have dramas with the string function (left, right etc.). Sometimes they don;t provide the autolist, other times they refuse to compile.

- gaffa

[BruceG]

Thanks for the responses, folks. Further observation of the problem seems to point to what gaffa says, where certain errors in the code seem to stop it from working.

For example, I copied over the Form_Load and Form_Activate events from one form to another (which already had those events coded). With duplicate procedures in the same form, intellisense stopped working; once the extras were removed, it started working again.

The problem also occurred when I copied some data definitions that were declared with Private or Public from the general declarations sections to a Sub (naturally, variables can't be declared with those keywords in a Sub). Once these keywords were changed to Dim, the problem went away.

I know that this is not an earth-shattering problem, but just a minor annoyance. Thanks again for your input.

[monte96]

I've also had it happen when the system is low on resources... go figure...

[Glacius Cool]

The Left and Right functions are buggy that way. They will never show the AutoList. It is a bug in VB5 and all the SP's, Microsoft never fixed it to my knowledge and they know about it (I've read the KB article, don't have it offhand though). I'm assuming that it works in VB6 ?