Variable Identification

[dcarr24]

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

[cafeenman]

I don't understand your question.

[mendhak]

I think he's talking about Breakpoints???

[SLH]

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.

[SLH]

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

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).

[cafeenman]

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.

[SLH]

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).

[Si_the_geek]

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

[cafeenman]

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.

[cafeenman]

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

[Si_the_geek]

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!

[SLH]

Of course he could just do

?Expression/VariableName

in the immidiate window.

[Si_the_geek]

Originally posted by SLH
Of course he could just do

?Expression/VariableName

in the immidiate window.

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

come on, we cant have that!

[SLH]