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'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

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

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MS MVP, Visual Basic
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"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in
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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

"will_456" <wi;EMAIL REMOVED>'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.

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" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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> "will_456" <wi;EMAIL REMOVED>'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.
>
>

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


"will_456" <wi;EMAIL REMOVED> wrote 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" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
> newsEMAIL REMOVED...
>> "will_456" <wi;EMAIL REMOVED>'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.
>>
>>
>
>

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" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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"will_456" <wi;EMAIL REMOVED>'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.

"Randy Birch" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote 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?

Jan Hyde wrote:
> I've never used multiple monitors, can you answer me this.
> My graphics card only has one output so I can only plug in
> one monitor, is there any way I can use the on board
> graphics card to run the second monitor?

It depends on the motherboard.

Some see an extra graphics card and completely disable the on board,
some have an option to enable it as well.

Failing that, a Matrox or NVidia dual head card as Raoul suggested.

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i-Catcher Development Team

iCode Systems

Dean Earley <EMAIL REMOVED>'s wild thoughts were
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following fruit:

>Jan Hyde wrote:
>> I've never used multiple monitors, can you answer me this.
>> My graphics card only has one output so I can only plug in
>> one monitor, is there any way I can use the on board
>> graphics card to run the second monitor?
>
>It depends on the motherboard.
>
>Some see an extra graphics card and completely disable the on board,
>some have an option to enable it as well.
>
>Failing that, a Matrox or NVidia dual head card as Raoul suggested.

I was hoping to avoid the extra expense. I may just wait
until I need a new graphics card.

Thanks anyway.

J