Naming suggestions

eyebol can report all the form components that still have their default names (for example, ‘Label1’) and suggest new ones. It can even apply these suggestions automatically using prefixes that can be customised by you. Prefixes can be customised in the Options screen.



Renaming components from their defaults can make a project easier to work with, especially for programmers new to a project.

eyebol works out suggestions from other properties of a component. For example, a label called ‘Label1’ might have a caption ‘First name:’. eyebol will recognise this component as using only a default name and look to the components caption for a suggestion that might be more appropriate. It may then come up with the following:

    Prefix   +   Valid caption characters
    Lbl             FirstName

So the suggestion would be to rename ‘Label1’ to ‘LblFirstName’ which is much more readable and understandable.

Provided you have a backup, after performing a name check all the selected suggestions can be applied automatically by clicking on ‘File’ and ‘Apply naming suggestions’. eyebol reloads every file in your project and renames any reference to your old naming to instead use its new name.