HOWTO: How to Change Case of a Control Name Within the Code Window (153583)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Standard Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
This article was previously published under Q153583

SUMMARY

You might think that you could change the letter case of a control name by changing the value of the Name property of the control in the Property Browser. However, this does not work. This article shows you how to do it.

MORE INFORMATION

By design, the letter case of a variable as designated when dimensioning it will be the letter case throughout the project. For example, type the following inside a code window: 
   Dim MyVariable as string
   myvariable = "hello"     ' will be changed to MyVariable = "hello"
To change the letter case of a variable, you must change its letter case within the dimension statement. Therefore, in the previous example, to change MyVariable to Myvariable, type the following: 
   Dim Myvariable as String
You can use this fact to change the letter case of a control's name. Just dimension a variable of the desired name and case. After you press ENTER, the case will change throughout the code window. Then simply delete the unnecessary dimension statement.

The following shows how to change the case of Command1 to command1 by a step-by-step example:

Step-by-step example

  1. Start a new project in Visual Basic 4.0. Form1 will be added by default.
  2. Add a command button on Form1.
  3. Add the following line of code to the Form_Click Event:
       Command1.Caption = "hello"
  4. Add the following line of code to the Form_Click event and press ENTER.
       Dim command1 as string
  5. The case should now be as just entered, or:
       command1.Caption = "hello"
  6. Delete the following line of code from the Form_Click event now that it is no longer needed:
       Dim command1 as string
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/29/2004
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