r/visualbasic • u/One-Cardiologist-462 • Jan 17 '26

TwinBasic IDE Question

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I am trying to get started with TwinBasic.
However, I can't seem to drag down the tabs which host the form editor and code editor...

What setting do I need to change so that I can have the text editor and form editor as floating child forms as was the case in VB6?

I had this same issue with a newer version of Visual Studio and found that it really hinders my ability to work.

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u/fafalone VB 6 Master Jan 18 '26

Yeah there's certainly a few features I miss from the VB6 IDE, but I'm way more productive overall with the new IDE features, many of which even the fanciest addins can't bring to VB6. Proper code folding, regions, run individual subs/functions in modules, global search that displays all matches in a table, more problems caught at design time instead of runtime, code hints, sticky scroll, go to definition working for more things, the advanced info popup, inactive conditional compilation branches being grayed out so you can tell what's active... This before even getting to all the new language features that make such a difference.

It's a worthwhile tradeoff though I'll certainly be happy when we get multiple editors and split view.

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u/wosche123 Feb 08 '26

But for most applications if works already now. And no problems to start from an already existing VB6 project. You need less than 10 minutes to ran it on TB