•Display Toolbox, Ctrl + Shift + T
The toolbox script has been Totally rewritten. It quickly and reliably accesses all 20 standard controls, and
also any tools that you may wish to add from the components list.
•ToggleToolboxAlphabetical Control + Alt + t
Toggles the toolbox to be displayed in alphabetical order, or if you prefer, in the order in which the controls appear in the toolbox, which is a handy way to find out which tools you have added to the end of the tool listing.
•Say Current Window Name, Ctrl + Shift + r
Announces the name of the form, code window, properties window or other window type that currently has the focus. This is an intuitive and concise way to find out where you are at in the VB6 IDE.
•Say Cursor position, Ctrl + Shift + p
Announces the line and column number for the PC cursor in the code window which it reads from the onscreen cursor position indicator. Can be used to determine when a long code line needs to be split.
•Say Indentation Column, Ctrl + Shift + d
Announces the indentation of the current code line by giving the column number where the first nonspace character is located. It then places the PCCursor at the beginning of the line so that you can press Tab to indent one level, or Shift + Tab to outdent one level.
•Terminate app execution, Ctrl + Shift + e
Immediately closes application when in Break mode, then verifies and announces that Design mode has been successfully entered.
•Open Properties For Form, Control + Alt + F4
Immediately opens the properties window for the currently active form, regardless of which control is selected on the form.
•Open Form_Load Procedure, Control + Alt + F7
Immediately opens the Form_load or Form_activate procedure in the code window, regardless of which control is selected on the form.
•Announce breakpoints, UpArrow or DownArrow
Jaws will automatically announce all lines that contain breakpoints as you scroll up or down in the code window.
•Announce execution step, UpArrow or DownArrow
Jaws will automatically announce which line contains the current execution step while in break mode as you scroll up and down in the code window.
•Auto step execution tracking, F8
Jaws will automatically track and announce each statement executed as you use single step execution by repeatedly pressing F8.
Also, a problem with the combo boxes in VB6 while using Jaws 4.02 or later has been fixed. The combo boxes can now be opened and red in the normal manner.
The scripts work with the default MDI interface and also the SDI interface, but they do not work with Visual Basic.net or Visual Basic for Applications. After installation, all of the original scripts provided by Freedom Scientific will still be available along with the new scripts listed above. My thanks go to all VB6 programmers who helped me test these scripts and who gave me suggestions to improve the scripts. If your version of Jaws is newer than the version of Jaws which was used to compile the scripts below, you will need to recompile the scripts before using them.
Description and installation instructions for the VB6 scripts:
VB6 ReadMe.zip
Detailed tutorial on programming in VB6 with the Enhanced scripts:
The Blind Tutorial for Navigating VB6