ID Number: Q76559
1.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
At design time in the Code window of the Visual Basic programming
environment (VB.EXE), you can use the PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP keys as
shortcut keys to go from one event procedure to another. Other helpful
shortcut keys are listed below.
This information applies to Microsoft Visual Basic programming system
version 1.0 for Windows.
More Information:
Below is an example that demonstrates certain conditions you need to
follow before you can use the PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP shortcut keys
to their fullest potential in the Code window:
1. Start Visual Basic with a New Project.
2. Place some command buttons or any other objects on the form.
3. Double-click on the form to bring up the Code window.
4. Place code within the various event procedures. For example,
place some various Print statements in the following event
procedures:
- Form_Click
- Command1_Click
- Label1_Click
- Form_Load
(Note that you will need to have a command button and a label
placed on Form1 before adding Print statements in the event
procedures mentioned above.)
5. Press the PAGE DOWN or PAGE UP key and notice how the VB.EXE
environment moves from one event procedure to another. The PAGE
DOWN and PAGE UP work in a such a way that you are looking at the
event procedures in an alphabetic order, except that the
"(general)" event procedure is always on the top of the list even
if it contains no code.
6. Notice that only the event procedures that contain code are
displayed. Also note that PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP wrap around
continuously. To activate PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN, the focus (the
I-beam mouse pointer) must be in the Code window. When you have pages
of code within an event procedure, there are times when the PAGE DOWN
and PAGE UP seem to perform differently, but you need to visualize
paging up or down a listing of event procedures in a printout to see
how these routines are designed to work.
Other Shortcut Keys in VB.EXE
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The F1 function key invokes Visual Basic Help. When you receive an
error after pressing the F5 key to run your code, you can press the F1
key to get additional information on that error.
F5 is the shortcut key to run a program.
F7 activates the Code window.
ALT+PRINT SCREEN is a Windows feature to copy the active window into
the Clipboard. PRINT SCREEN copies the entire screen into the
Clipboard. CTRL+INSERT copies selected text into the Clipboard.
F8 single-steps through a program in the VB.EXE environment.
F9 toggles breakpoints on and off.
F12 chooses the Save Project As command from the File menu.
For additional shortcut keys, search for "shortcuts" under Help in
the VB.EXE environment, and search for "system keys" in the Windows
Help.
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