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• AI Chat get_file_content reads by navigating; the add-in surface needs a member that reads a document by name

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  addins ai-chat enhancement

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#887 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• Automation replies that report or act on a form or module without taking its name still do not say which project's it is

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  bug mcp

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#886 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• Where a created form's first header comes from, and how the sidecar tells whether its marks already count it

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  code-editor enhancement

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#885 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• A conflicted external change leaves the sidecar's marks in the numbering of the file before it

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  bug project-system

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#884 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• An Integration test run under load reported 187 of 657 tests, and passed

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  bug flaky small tooling

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#883 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• The compare argument of InStr, Split, Replace and StrComp: 2, a negative value and an LCID are read as binary

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#881 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• Another module's Public variable or Const can't be read unqualified; without Option Explicit it reads Empty

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  bug interpreter medium silently-wrong

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#880 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• An array used as text gives the CLR type name, where VB6 raises 13

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#879 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• v = App leaves a Variant as it was, where VB6 empties it before raising 438

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#878 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• An On Error statement doesn't clear Err, so a helper's On Error Resume Next sees its caller's stale error

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#877 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• For Each over an array never allocated runs zero times; VB6 raises 92

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#876 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• Join and Filter of a Long or two-dimensional array give a value where VB6 raises 5 or 13

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#875 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• A Boolean, String or Date parameter isn't converted: S 5 stays an Integer, and B "abc" raises nothing

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#874 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• TypeName of a control array, of Debug, and of an array of objects is wrong

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#872 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Without Option Explicit, Screen, Clipboard, Printer, Printers and Forms read as Empty variables

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#871 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• On the #273 branch, a designer change during a paused run moves breakpoints the running program still numbers the old way

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  bug

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#870 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Break When Value Is True reads a watch by its own rule: a watch of "True" or "1" never breaks

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  bug debugger needs-oracle small

  Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#869 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Move to Avalonia 12.1.4 and add its native Wayland backend, keeping X11 the default until verified

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  enhancement form-designer large mcp ui

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#868 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A library-qualified statement call of an unimplemented built-in raises a trappable 461 (VBA.CallByName o, ...)

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  bug interpreter small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#867 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• IsMissing of an omitted Optional o As Variant is False: the parameter gets Empty, not Missing

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#866 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Six binding errors at startup: Lock Controls binds through a null FocusedForm, and Dock's DockControl theme through a null Layout

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  bug small ui

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#864 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Nothing tells a Linux user how to extract and run HexIDE, and the release body sends users of the smaller builds to a Windows-only Desktop Runtime

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  documentation misleading packaging small

  Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#863 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• MISSING_FEATURES calls four unbuilt COM features Windows-only and unmodelled controls placeholders; OUT_OF_SCOPE misdescribes the Data control

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  documentation small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#862 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• An Image raises no events: Image1_Click never runs, and the code window offers no event for an Image

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  bug interpreter needs-oracle silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 44/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#861 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Image is modelled but not in the toolbox: it cannot be drawn, add_control refuses it, and an empty one is invisible in the designer

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  enhancement form-designer needs-oracle small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#860 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• F5 and a made EXE run a form whose controls are data-bound, and each bound control shows its design-time value where VB6 shows the current record

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  bug compile interpreter silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#859 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• The OLE container control (VB.OLE) is not implemented: no component, no toolbox entry, nothing at run time

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  enhancement form-designer interpreter medium needs-oracle

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#858 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A form runs with the controls HexIDE does not model left out, and code naming one reads Empty, is told it is not defined, or skips a call with Err.Number 0

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  bug compile interpreter medium silently-wrong

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#857 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Record the vb6.exe measurements of VB.OLE, VB.Data and duplicate control names in the oracle doc

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  chore needs-oracle small

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#856 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Save Project writes a .vbp's recognised lines in a fixed order, so Form= before Reference= comes back swapped, even in a file VB6 itself wrote

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  bug medium project-system serialization

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#855 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A control can be given a preserved control's name, or another control's name in a different case, and vb6.exe then builds the form without either

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  bug form-designer silently-wrong small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#854 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A menu item created in the Menu Editor is named without any check: duplicates and non-identifiers reach the .frm

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  bug form-designer needs-oracle small

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#853 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A form's Left and Top read 0 at run time, and assigning them does not move the window

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  bug interpreter needs-oracle silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#852 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A Sub named Reset is parsed as the Reset statement, so calling it stops the run

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  bug interpreter small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#851 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A UTF-8 file without a byte-order mark reopens in the host's code page once an edit removes its last character above U+00FF

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  bug

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#846 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• What 'the host's ANSI code page' should mean on Windows set to UTF-8 (code page 65001), measured against VB6

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  chore

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

  hexide-io/HexIDE#845 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• The oracle builds native code, but HexIDE emulates the IDE, which runs p-code: record the mode, measure the IDE, and audit the rows

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  chore medium needs-oracle tooling

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#842 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A For loop ignores a change the body makes to its counter: i = i + 1 inside For i = 1 To 10 still gives ten passes, where VB6 gives five

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  bug interpreter silently-wrong small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#841 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• In break mode the title says [run] and the status bar says Running…

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  bug debugger trivial ui

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#837 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A context-menu action bound to a method cannot be driven: invoke_command reaches only commands, and no tool opens a context menu

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  mcp small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#836 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Project → Remove Form1 does nothing: the menu item has no command

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  bug project-system trivial ui

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#835 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A message box moved off a hidden form leaves the program's forms clickable while it waits

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  bug interpreter needs-oracle small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#834 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Measure what VB6 does with a compile error met while a program runs (divergence D22)

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  chore debugger needs-oracle small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#833 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A syntax error at the start of a run is shown as the parser's raw text, with an empty 'Offending symbol'

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  bug interpreter needs-oracle small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#830 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• No automation tool can close a window as a person does, so a refused or answered close cannot be tested

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  enhancement mcp small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#829 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A program's message box buttons are always in English

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  enhancement localization small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#828 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A program's message box ignores Escape, Enter and its default-button bits

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  enhancement interpreter needs-oracle small

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#827 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A .frm control type written in another case (Begin vb.label) is kept as an unknown control and never created

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  bug needs-oracle serialization trivial

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#824 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• A .vbp whose Startup= names its form in another case loads with no startup form

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  bug needs-oracle project-system trivial

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#823 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• One interpreter per run, with forms as instances of their module and a real Me

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  enhancement interpreter large

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  hexide-io/HexIDE#822 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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