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- Subject: QuickBasic editor question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.072552.44968@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 07:25:51 CST
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Is there any way to temporarily disable features of the QuickBasic 4.5
- editor? There are a number of minor annoyances but the biggest problem
- I have is related to making subroutines.
-
- Often when writing a program I'll decide "hmm, that block of code
- would be better as a subroutine". But when I try to put a SUB
- statement before an already-existing section of code,
- the editor takes me out of the original routine and creates a new,
- empty subroutine.
-
- (IMPORTANT: Notice I'm **NOT** talking about developing a really new
- subroutine from scratch, but extracting already-present
- code to make a SUB . Typically this would be starting from old
- "spaghetti" code and converting it to a more structured form.)
-
- I can avoid this by saving the program as ASCII, getting out of QB,
- using a text editor to insert the "SUB ... END SUB" statements around the
- appropriate lines of code, moving the new SUB to the bottom of the
- file, then getting back into QB. But something tells me there's got to
- be an easier way ....
-
- Thanks for any help. Apologies if this is a dumb/RTFM question but
- I haven't been able to find anything in the docs.
- ________________________________________________________________________
- Raymond W. Arritt | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Assistant Professor | University of Kansas
- arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Lawrence, KS 66045
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