Another doEvents question
I actually use peekMessage, translate and dispatch API calls instead but I was wondering how the mechanism actually works under the hood. When processing say events from an activeX control I know this...
View ArticleOut of memory error due to project size (using RC6)
Hello! I use RC6 in all my projects. There is one project that is really big, and it seems to me that the "Out of memory" error which I could not really track down over the last 5 years and which keeps...
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Conflict between Titlebar, Form Caption, Resize, Menu, and Close from taskbar
Hi friends, As well as I'm changing my app to give it a custom title bar and especially rideof form border, I get some conflicts: Because BorderStyle is defined in 0 (None), I can't resize the form, so...
View Articlecretae block of 1000
I just have a myvar=1 and myvar1=7859 possible to create a block of steep 1000 similar: 1-1000 1001-2000 2001-3000 ... 7000-7859 note: myvar is a fixed number, myvar1 have a variable value
View ArticleVB IDE hangs when I add mscomctl.ocx or try to load a project that uses it
Hi I have a strange issue in one VM with Windows 11 Pro 64 bits+VB6 SP6: when I load a project that uses mscomctl.ocx the IDE hangs loading the project, I'm sure that the problem is that OCX because if...
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[RESOLVED] Having trouble reading IMAGE_EXPORT_DIRECTORY
Trying to read the exports of DLLs. (Error handling omitted) Code: Ā Ā Ā Dim lpBaseAddress As LongPtr Ā Ā Ā Ā Dim hFile As LongPtr Ā Ā Ā Ā Dim hMapping As LongPtr Ā Ā Ā Ā Dim szPE As String Ā Ā Ā Ā Dim...
View ArticleService Pack 6 Italiano
Salve, devo installare su un nuovo pc il mio visual basic 6 ma non riesco piĆ¹ a trovare il service pack 6 in Italiano.. Qualcuno mi sa dire dove posso scaricarlo ? Ho visto sul sito di Microsoft che...
View ArticleGithub corrupted FRM file, what settings do you have in .gitattributes?
On one of my projects, only one specific project, when I cloned it from github to a PC, the VBP could not be opened, bringing the IDE and the project to a halt. The error is related to the picture...
View ArticleRC6.dll vbRichClient
Hi. I have seen that using the RC6.dll may be the best option to save image formats. I have tried GDI+ but seems i cannot get it stable once compiled. works fine in ide. ( you may say permissions, so i...
View ArticleUnable to Use exe file
Win10 Defender tells me my VB6 exe has malware Win32/Wacapew.C!ml From Googling it seems it's a false positive. It seems to start only after I'd used chatGPT for help with subclassing - and had copied...
View ArticleWhat is wrong ?
l am making a new project which will contain a .dat file Open App.Path & "\Records.Dat" For Input As #1 and l get a "file not found" ...What do l miss?
View Article[RESOLVED] Browse TypeLib
How to list all types present in typelib and how to export their interface IIDs, I want to use them to know which ones are supported from which object. Thanks
View Article[RESOLVED] Help with Freeimage Orientation
I need a little help with Orientation returned by Freeimage.dll most code i see ie from Namespace & GDI+ are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and they correspond to an angle of degree but Freeimage return the...
View ArticleIs Freeimage.dll Project still active
does anyone know if this project is still being worked on last version is 3.18 but i have seen comments of 3.19 its been quite a few years since last update. tks
View ArticleHow to make a Listbox's content permanent after switch-off.
Hi everybody. I'm working at a project with VB6. I wonder if anyone can tell me if there is a way to make the data added to a listbox permanent, so that it doesn't get deleted when the program is...
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