Assignment in Immediate Window Causes Syntax Check In Editor

• Microsoft Visual Basic Standard and Professional Editions for MS-DOS, version 1.0
• Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) for MS-DOS, version 7.1
• Microsoft QuickBASIC for MS-DOS, version 4.5

SUMMARY

With a program loaded in the Edit window, if you perform any kind of assignment in the Immediate window, the focus shifts to the Edit window and a syntax check is performed. This can cause untimely syntax errors if your program was not ready to run.

This behavior is by design. The following demonstrates how this works:

1. In the Edit window of VBDOS.EXE, QBX.EXE, or QB.EXE type the following:

   Loop




2. In the Immediate window, type the following and press ENTER:

   x=1

Loop without Do

Additional query words: VBmsdos 1.00 4.50 7.10

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Version : MS-DOS:1.0,4.5; :7.1
Platform : MS-DOS
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