Not that this is real "news", especially to those "gurus" out there, but this
was an amazing discovery (that I found by accident) that perhaps other VB
users might find handy . . .
Of course, it's obvious that you can have the "code" of 2 different forms
open for editing at the same time; you can size each window independantly,
place them side-by-side or one-over-the-other or cascaded, etc. and then
you can "cut and paste" between them . . . great for "borrowing code" from
one form and placing it into another . . .
BUT
Did you know that when editing the code of 1 form (e.g. your Form_Load event)
you can create a horizontally-divided split-screen editing window, with
each window pointing to a different procedure within THAT form? I didn't
realize you could do THAT! I don't recall seeing it in any of the FMs!
I stumbled upon it when I noticed that at the top of the screen (where the
grey control bar (with the pull-downs for the module selections) meets the
editing window) if I flew the mouse over that dividing line, the cursor changed
to an up/down arrow and a horizontal line between them . . . holding down the
mouse button and pulling-down caused it to do a slit screen, with two code
windows above/below each other. Click in one window, and procedure#1
(whatever you select) is edited, click in the other, and procedure#2 (whatever
you select) is edited. The procedure select pull-downs at the top of the
screen will show you which procedure you are editing. This is REALLY handy
for "borrowing code" from one procedure to another within the SAME form!
Am I just "dense", or did every other newbie out there spot this already?
Split-Screen Editing