Long time bug in VB6

[will_456]

I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?

On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select a
large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.

It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and you'll
accidentally select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had this problem
in spite of every service pack.

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?

>
On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select
a large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>
It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and
you'll accidentally select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had
this problem in spite of every service pack.

I just tried it out on my VB6 SP5 installation and the problem you are
describing does not occur on it.

Rick

[Randy Birch]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

Ditto here - never had a crash selecting or deselecting multiple controls.

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I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>
On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select
a large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>
It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and
you'll accidentally select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had
this problem in spite of every service pack.

I just tried it out on my VB6 SP5 installation and the problem you are
describing does not occur on it.

Rick

[Jan Hyde]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:55:47 GMT bearing the
following fruit:

>I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>
>On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select a
>large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
>control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>
>It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and you'll
>accidentally select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had this problem
>in spite of every service pack.
>

This bug was fixed in a SP, can't recall which one. But I
think and SP from 3-6 should do.

[will_456]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

Found it thanks:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190039/en-us

Apparently all I need to do is open the properties windw first and it won't
crash.

Hm-m-m wish I'd known that before adding 20 controls to a form, lining them
up and getting them looking just right before selecting them all and trying
to select them all so I can set a common property (without saving first).
Make one mistake selecting so need to deselect one control and Crash !!! -
start again with a blank form. I've done this so many times Arg-h-h-h-h
!!!!!!



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"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:55:47 GMT bearing the
following fruit:
>

>>I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>>
>>On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select
>>a
>>large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
>>control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>>
>>It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and
>>you'll
>>accidentall y select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had this
>>problem
>>in spite of every service pack.
>>

>
This bug was fixed in a SP, can't recall which one. But I
think and SP from 3-6 should do.
>
>

[will_456]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

Also note there is no fix (2003) just a confirmation that it is a bug.


"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.comwrote in message
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Found it thanks:
>

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190039/en-us

>
Apparently all I need to do is open the properties windw first and it
won't crash.
>
Hm-m-m wish I'd known that before adding 20 controls to a form, lining
them up and getting them looking just right before selecting them all and
trying to select them all so I can set a common property (without saving
first). Make one mistake selecting so need to deselect one control and
Crash !!! - start again with a blank form. I've done this so many times
Arg-h-h-h-h !!!!!!
>
>
>
"Jan Hyde" <StellaDrinker@ REMOVE.ME.uboot .comwrote in message
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>"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.com>'s wild thoughts were
>released on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:55:47 GMT bearing the
>following fruit:
>>

>>>I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>>>
>>>On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select
>>>a
>>>large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
>>>control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>>>
>>>It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and
>>>you'll
>>>accidental ly select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had this
>>>problem
>>>in spite of every service pack.
>>>

>>
>This bug was fixed in a SP, can't recall which one. But I
>think and SP from 3-6 should do.
>>
>>

>
>

[Randy Birch]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

Still can't reproduce the problem, even following the steps in the KB
article. And that's on a box with vb6 and NO service pack installed.

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Randy Birch
MS MVP, Visual Basic

http://vbnet.mvps.org/

"Jan Hyde" <StellaDrinker@ REMOVE.ME.uboot .comwrote in message
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"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:55:47 GMT bearing the
following fruit:

>I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>
>On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select a
>large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
>control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.
>
>It's annoying because you'll be selecting sometimes small labels and you'll
>accidentally select the wrong one or what's behind it. I've had this
>problem
>in spite of every service pack.
>

This bug was fixed in a SP, can't recall which one. But I
think and SP from 3-6 should do.

[Steve Gerrard]

Re: Long time bug in VB6


"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.orgwrote in message
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Still can't reproduce the problem, even following the steps in the KB
article. And that's on a box with vb6 and NO service pack installed.
>

VB6 in original condition? Are you saving that for Antiques Roadshow, or
something?
:)

[Randy Birch]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

<gHaven't got around to installing SP5 or SP6 on a clean install.

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Still can't reproduce the problem, even following the steps in the KB
article. And that's on a box with vb6 and NO service pack installed.
>

VB6 in original condition? Are you saving that for Antiques Roadshow, or
something?
:)

[preben nielsen]

Re: Long time bug in VB6


"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.comskrev i en meddelelse
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I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>
On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key
and select a large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl
key down and click a control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE
will crash.

Never seen that problem.

And a "large number of control" does - in my ears - sound like a
design-problem ;-)

[Jan Hyde]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis @mvps.org>'s wild thoughts were
released on Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:43:03 -0500 bearing the
following fruit:

>Still can't reproduce the problem, even following the steps in the KB
>article. And that's on a box with vb6 and NO service pack installed.

It certainly has been a problem - it used to drive me crazy.
I've encountered the problem very rarely since SP3.

[will_456]

Re: Long time bug in VB6


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>
"will_456" <wi;ll_456@bigp ond.comskrev i en meddelelse
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>I've always found this extremely annoying, anyone else?
>>
>On a form where you have many controls hold down your Ctrl key and select
>a large number of them at random. Now keep the Ctrl key down and click a
>control again to unselect it. Your VB6 IDE will crash.

>
Never seen that problem.
>
And a "large number of control" does - in my ears - sound like a
design-problem ;-)
>
>
>

Just tried it then:
1. New project - one form
2. Add 4 buttons
3. Close properties window
4. Hold down Ctrl and click on each one until 4 selected
5. Click one again to deselect

Houston - we have a problem !!!! ... well on my system anyway (and the last
three computers I've owned)

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

Just tried it then:

1. New project - one form
2. Add 4 buttons
3. Close properties window
4. Hold down Ctrl and click on each one until 4 selected
5. Click one again to deselect
>
Houston - we have a problem !!!! ... well on my system anyway (and the
last three computers I've owned)

Yep! That procedure (and using the Shift key instead of the Control key)
crashes my copy of VB also. I guess I never saw this problem before because
I never close the Properties window. Just out of curiosity, why would
someone close the Properties window anyway?

Rick

[Jan Hyde]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

"Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)"
<rickNOSPAMnews @NOSPAMcomcast. net>'s wild thoughts were
released on Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:34:45 -0500 bearing the
following fruit:

>Just tried it then:
>1. New project - one form
>2. Add 4 buttons
>3. Close properties window
>4. Hold down Ctrl and click on each one until 4 selected
>5. Click one again to deselect
>>
>Houston - we have a problem !!!! ... well on my system anyway (and the
>last three computers I've owned)

>
>Yep! That procedure (and using the Shift key instead of the Control key)
>crashes my copy of VB also. I guess I never saw this problem before because
>I never close the Properties window. Just out of curiosity, why would
>someone close the Properties window anyway?

Before I got a flat screen my eyes could only cope with
800x600 - Not a lot of screen real estate to work with.

I can see why there might be occasions where you need to
close things down.

J

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Re: Long time bug in VB6

>Just out of curiosity, why would someone close the

>Properties window anyway?

>
Before I got a flat screen my eyes could only cope with
800x600 - Not a lot of screen real estate to work with.
>
I can see why there might be occasions where you need to
close things down.

Maybe if you were using the MDI interface; but if things were that crowded,
switching to the SDI interface would have solved that... no need to turn
individual "tool" windows off as the Form, when selected, would sit above
them.

Rick