Issues

• Showing or hiding the menu bar at run time is refused: the last visible top-level menu can't be hidden, nor one shown on a form with none

  buginterpreterneeds-oraclesmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1140 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 17, 2026

• Design note for era skins: the three-layer model, parameterised skins, layered icons, and the spec revisions they need

  choreneeds-decisionprofilessmallui
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1138 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 17, 2026

• Epic: skins that recreate desktop and application eras (VB6 on Win98, VS2012 on Windows 7, Mac OS 8, CDE ...) without copying any asset

  enhancementform-designerlargeprofilestrackingui
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1137 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 17, 2026

• ChrW, AscW and ChrB are not defined, and Chr does not go through the ANSI code page

  enhancementinterpreterneeds-oraclesmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1134 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 17, 2026

• A symbol font draws its caption as letters: Wingdings' PMJ is a flag, a bomb and a smiley in VB6, and PMJ here

  buginterpretersmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1133 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 17, 2026
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• The minimap ignores folding: folded regions still fill it, and its viewport marker spans the hidden lines

  code-editorenhancementsmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1131 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 16, 2026

• A running form's menu items are named with VB6's & in the automation tree: the Game menu reads '&Game'

  bugmcpsmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1128 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 16, 2026

• Open a twinBASIC project read-only: its .twinproj container, or the plain files twinBASIC exports

  enhancementmediumneeds-decisionproject-system
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1122 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• Code from an Office document or a downloaded project is untrusted: opening never runs it, and F5 asks first

  enhancementproject-systemsecuritysmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1121 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Save edits back into an Office file's VBA project, only in a form where Office recompiles from the saved source

  enhancementlargeneeds-oraclesecurityserialization
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1120 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Open the VBA project inside an Office file (.xlsm, .docm, .pptm, .xls, .doc ...), read-only, from [MS-OVBA] and [MS-CFB]

  enhancementlargeproject-systemserialization
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1119 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• A project-format layer: .vbp and .vbg as its first formats, so other project containers can be opened, and the project file shown as a node

  enhancementmediumproject-system
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1118 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Anchor and Dock for controls, outside strict mode, stored where VB6 will keep them

  enhancementform-designerinterpreterlargeneeds-decisionserialization
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1117 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Members beyond VB6's, taken from the WinForms equivalents, marked per member so a strict VB6 mode hides them

  enhancementform-designerinterpretermediumneeds-decisionprofiles
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1116 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• MSForms foundation: the FM20 library on #1082's model, its controls' .frx streams per [MS-OFORMS], and a pilot control

  enhancementform-designerlargeserialization
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1115 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026
  1

• Epic: the MSForms (Forms 2.0) controls, re-implemented cross-platform as #1081 does the in-box ActiveX controls

  enhancementform-designerinterpreterlargeserializationtracking
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1114 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Grey inactive #If branches in the code window, with a "view as" selector for VB6, VBA 32-bit, VBA 64-bit and twinBASIC

  code-editorenhancementmedium
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1113 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Conditional compilation: #If, #ElseIf, #Else, #End If and #Const, against the project's arguments and the built-in constants

  enhancementgrammarinterpreterlanguage-serverlargeneeds-oracle
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1112 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Battleship in text mode: a demo that runs on the Console library in HexIDE, VB6 and twinBASIC

  choresmall
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1111 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• The Console library as a twinBASIC ActiveX DLL: 32- and 64-bit, published compiled and as a twinPack

  enhancementmediumneeds-decisionpackaging
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1110 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• A terminal pane in the IDE: a character grid with colours and keyboard input, for programs that use the Console library

  enhancementlargeui
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1109 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• The Console library in HexIDE: System.Console for VB6 programs, and made programs writing to a real terminal

  enhancementinterpretermedium
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1108 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Library references: HexIDE implements a class library that a project's Reference= line names

  enhancementinterpretermediumproject-system
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1107 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Epic: a Console library for VB6 programs, built into HexIDE and shipped as a twinBASIC ActiveX DLL, with a text-mode Battleship to prove it

  enhancementlargetracking
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1106 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Add an in-box control to a project: the Components dialog, toolbox gating and the form's header line

  enhancementform-designermediumproject-system
  hexide-io/HexIDE#1103 · Filter by author imojenisys opened on Oct 15, 2026