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I doubt this is possible, but it's always been a dream of mine. When I'm looking at a screenfull of code, I've always wish I could press and hold a hotkey, and while held, all values of all variables that are visible would appear as tooltips. Sort of like how you can hover the mouse over a single variable to pop-up its value, but a whole screenfull at once. So much easier than building watchlists and using the variable viewer. Just press and hold a hotkey -- all values pop up -- release the hotkey, they disappear again. It's sort of a "peek" feature for your code, to see what all the variables are doing. <Drool>.

A problem is, that the current feature already doesn't work perfectly (hovering a global I shows the value of a local I if that's where code execution is). This would have to get changed first, else this feature would show many misleading values.

Trond wrote:hovering a global I shows the value of a local I if that's where code execution is

Say what? How can a local variable exist with the same name as a global? A global is global, after all.

MachineCode wrote:Say what? How can a local variable exist with the same name as a global? A global is global, after all.

Damn the "Protected" keyword... I always forget it's the same thing as "Local" in other BASICs. Should have the same name, and while I'm griping, FindString() should be InStr() too. There, I said it!

[Edit] And while STILL griping, any variable set as global should NOT allow a protected one to have the same name. IMNSHO.

An alternative explanation, without globals, is that a local MyVar in procedure A will display the value of a local MyVar in procedure B, if execution is in procedure B.