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

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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