Getting Started
Introduction
Sample Programs
QBasic IDEs
History
Advice
Tools
Mini-Tutorial
Tutorial
Code Snippets

Resources
Web Sites
More Tutorials
Vendors
Books
Magazines
NewsLetters
NewsGroups
Forums
User Groups
Talk Shows
Blogs

 GBIC >> QBasic >> Tutorial >> IDE (Editor) >> View Menu

QBasic Information Center Tutorials - IDE (Editor)
These tutorials were written to help you get a quick, but thorough, understanding of QBasic - the scope of the language as well as it's specific capabilities.

QBasic Editor
The QBasic editor is very simple, but contains enough capability to support creating programs of any size.

The startup screens for QBasic as shown below. For more information on the menu options, click on one of the followinglinks.

For it's time, the menu option above were considered reasonably complete. However, today's language IDE's are considerably more complex.

View Menu


The View menu provides the following options. Keystroke shortcuts are shown in the image.

  • Subs - Displays a list of procedures (subs and functions) from the currently loaded program. Selecting a procedure will display it in the Program window. The Program window can display only a single procedure or simply the main program.

  • Split - The Program window can be split into two regions, each of which can be used to independently view the main program (or a selected procedure). This is very useful for viewing two separate sections of long QBasic programs.

  • Output Screen - Displays the output screen, which is contained within the QBasic window. Press any key to return to the main window.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please let me know.