add-in catching events while debugging?

[jel]

Call me naive, but I wanted to build my own Watch-window for VB6. So I thought to make an Add-in, also in VB6. However:
I can't even figure out where to add an entry in the pop-up menu you get when right-clicking on a variable when in debug-mode.
Furthermore, I wouldn't know how to get a reference to the selected variable (or the object it refers to) in the code of my add-in.
Am I trying to do something impossible or did I just miss some essential documentation?

 

[vb5prgrmr]

The documentation is buried pretty deep in the help files. Search MS or the

http://WWW for

"Building VB (or visual basic) Addin (or add in)" and you should get a couple of good results.

Good Luck

 

[jel]

Yes, well I had been searching a bit.
Info I found was on add-ins to manage code, that is in design-mode, not catching variables while on a breakpoint.
I won't despair yet...

 

[BobRodes]

It's been quite a while since I looked at add-ins, but the basic idea is that you reference the design time environment as an object. It has properties, methods, events, etc, that you can use in your add-in code. I would research those, and see what I could find.

Hope this helps a little,

Bob