Word 97—Programmability

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Property Sheet

Like VB 4.0, the Visual Basic Editor has a property sheet that is recycled to display properties for different forms and controls. The property sheet is shared with the host application’s window; that is, Word uses this properties window to display properties of ActiveX controls that are embedded in documents or forms.

There are two tabs in the property sheet: Alphabetic and Categorized. The Alphabetic tab view is identical to the alphabetical flat list in VB 4.0’s property sheet. In the Categorized tab view, properties are grouped by category, e.g., all properties related to color, or font, or dimensions. These categories can be expanded or collapsed.

Debugger

The debugger includes a local variables window, an auto variables window (this shows the values of all variables and expressions within a couple of lines of the current line of execution), a watch window, and an immediate window.

Debug windows use the tree view control, so you can expand and collapse items such as class variables, user defined types, and arrays. Standard and class modules have a special first variable representing the entire module or class.

The Locals window also includes a call stack browser which depicts call graphs and caller’s graphs, and allows you to jump to variable/procedure definitions and references.

 

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