Add to a Form with a RichTextBox and Commandbutton. This will color code VB's Key words.
Option Explicit
Const vbDarkBlue = &H800000
Const vbDarkGreen = &H8000&
Private Sub HighlightText(sKeyword As String, iColour As Long)
Dim nStart As Integer, sPrevChar As String, sNextChar As String
nStart = InStr(1, LCase(RichTextBox1.Text), sKeyword)
Do While nStart <> 0
If nStart > 1 Then
sPrevChar = Mid$(RichTextBox1.Text, nStart - 1, 1)
Else
sPrevChar = " "
End If
If Len(RichTextBox1.Text) >= nStart + Len(sKeyword) Then
sNextChar = Mid$(RichTextBox1.Text, nStart + Len(sKeyword), 1)
Else
sNextChar = " "
End If
If (sPrevChar = Chr(32) Or sPrevChar = Chr(13) Or _
sPrevChar = Chr(10) Or sPrevChar = Chr(9) Or sPrevChar = "(") And _
(sNextChar = Chr(32) Or sNextChar = Chr(13) Or _
sNextChar = Chr(10) Or sNextChar = Chr(9) Or sNextChar = "," Or sNextChar = ")") Then
With RichTextBox1
.SelStart = nStart - 1
.SelText = ""
.SelStart = nStart - 1 + Len("[color=blue]") + Len(sKeyword)
.SelText = ""
.SelStart = Len(RichTextBox1.Text)
.SelColor = iColour
End With
End If
nStart = InStr(nStart + Len(sKeyword), LCase(RichTextBox1.Text), sKeyword)
Loop
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_Click()
With RichTextBox1
.SelStart = 0
.SelLength = Len(.Text)
.SelColor = vbBlack
.SelStart = Len(.Text)
End With
' Add more custom words here
HighlightText "if", vbBlue
HighlightText "doevents", vbBlue
HighlightText "then", vbBlue
HighlightText "else", vbBlue
HighlightText "end", vbBlue
HighlightText "with", vbBlue
HighlightText "select", vbBlue
HighlightText "case", vbBlue
HighlightText "private", vbBlue
HighlightText "public", vbBlue
HighlightText "dim", vbBlue
HighlightText "sub", vbBlue
HighlightText "function", vbBlue
HighlightText "do", vbBlue
HighlightText "loop", vbBlue
HighlightText "for", vbBlue
HighlightText "next", vbBlue
HighlightText "each", vbBlue
HighlightText "integer", vbBlue
HighlightText "boolean", vbBlue
HighlightText "long", vbBlue
HighlightText "double", vbBlue
HighlightText "variant", vbBlue
HighlightText "string", vbBlue
HighlightText "single", vbBlue
HighlightText "byte", vbBlue
HighlightText "date", vbBlue
HighlightText "format", vbBlue
HighlightText "cdate", vbBlue
HighlightText "cvar", vbBlue
HighlightText "cbyte", vbBlue
HighlightText "cbool", vbBlue
HighlightText "cint", vbBlue
HighlightText "clng", vbBlue
HighlightText "csng", vbBlue
HighlightText "cdbl", vbBlue
HighlightText "const", vbBlue
HighlightText "option base 1", vbBlue
HighlightText "option base 0", vbBlue
HighlightText "until", vbBlue
HighlightText "while", vbBlue
HighlightText "option explicit", vbBlue
HighlightText "byval", vbBlue
HighlightText "byref", vbBlue
HighlightText "declare", vbBlue
HighlightText "global", vbBlue
HighlightText "true", vbBlue
HighlightText "false", vbBlue
HighlightText "mod", vbBlue
HighlightText "as", vbBlue
HighlightText "lib", vbBlue
HighlightText "open", vbBlue
HighlightText "close", vbBlue
HighlightText "append", vbBlue
HighlightText "output", vbBlue
HighlightText "input", vbBlue
HighlightText "print", vbBlue
HighlightText "write", vbBlue
HighlightText "binary", vbBlue
HighlightText "access", vbBlue
HighlightText "xor", vbBlue
HighlightText "or", vbBlue
HighlightText "and", vbBlue
HighlightText "in", vbBlue
HighlightText "like", vbBlue
HighlightText "typeof", vbBlue
HighlightText "object", vbBlue
HighlightText "ubound", vbBlue
HighlightText "lbound", vbBlue
HighlightText "to", vbBlue
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Resize()
RichTextBox1.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight
End Sub