VB6 weirdness on W7
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From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Apr 2010 17:05 SteveC wrote: > What is UAC? User Access Control. > the programme is probably not very well written,early self learning > exercises.If it never worked on W7 I can see that, but it worked last > week and I have MADE NO CHANGES to the system between Friday last week > and Monday this week. That's why folks asked *where* you/it were trying to save the file. Did that change? If it does, does the result? -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: SteveC on 5 Apr 2010 17:23 Thanks for UAC,wasn't sure what it was.It is set to do not notify about changes,slider all way to the bottom, Nothing has is different,save location is the same,the input data is the same,it's selected from a drop down combo,displayed on a flexgrid and printed.I have changed nothing.printing works fine,any printer on my system will print it with no errors,only the save seems to be different. On Apr 5, 2:05 pm, Karl E. Peterson <k...(a)exmvps.org> wrote: > SteveC wrote: > > What is UAC? > > User Access Control. > > > the programme is probably not very well written,early self learning > > exercises.If it never worked on W7 I can see that, but it worked last > > week and I have MADE NO CHANGES to the system between Friday last week > > and Monday this week. > > That's why folks asked *where* you/it were trying to save the file. > Did that change? If it does, does the result? > > -- > .NET: It's About Trust!http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Apr 2010 18:09 SteveC wrote: >>> What is UAC? >> >> User Access Control. >> >>> �the programme is probably not very well written,early self learning >>> exercises.If it never worked on W7 I can see that, but it worked last >>> week and I have MADE NO CHANGES to the system between Friday last week >>> and Monday this week. >> >> That's why folks asked *where* you/it were trying to save the file. � >> Did that change? �If it does, does the result? > > Thanks for UAC,wasn't sure what it was.It is set to do not notify > about changes,slider all way to the bottom, > Nothing has is different,save location is the same,the input data is > the same,it's selected from a drop down combo,displayed on a flexgrid > and printed.I have changed nothing.printing works fine,any printer on > my system will print it with no errors,only the save seems to be > different. Assuming you didn't just alter the UAC setting, it's looking like you'll need to actually do a little debugging, then. Are you familiar with the F8 key and the Local and Immediate windows? -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Apr 2010 19:13 SteveC wrote: >>> What is UAC? >> >> User Access Control. >> >>> �the programme is probably not very well written,early self learning >>> exercises.If it never worked on W7 I can see that, but it worked last >>> week and I have MADE NO CHANGES to the system between Friday last week >>> and Monday this week. >> >> That's why folks asked *where* you/it were trying to save the file. � >> Did that change? �If it does, does the result? > > Thanks for UAC,wasn't sure what it was.It is set to do not notify > about changes,slider all way to the bottom, > Nothing has is different,save location is the same,the input data is > the same,it's selected from a drop down combo,displayed on a flexgrid > and printed.I have changed nothing.printing works fine,any printer on > my system will print it with no errors,only the save seems to be > different. Assuming you didn't just alter the UAC setting, it's looking like you'll need to actually do a little debugging, then. Are you familiar with the F8 key and the Local and Immediate windows? -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Phill W. on 6 Apr 2010 07:54
On 05/04/2010 19:59, SteveC wrote: > I'm currently running it on W7 pro and periodically if will not save > the file.I used it last week and it worked fine.This morning it failed > to save the file.No errors,at least no VB errors,just the message > box warning I put in on exit if I fail to save the file. If the program failed every time, I'd suspect either a coding problem or something big in the environment, like UAC. Because it only breaks sometimes, I'd start looking at "intervention by person or processes unknown". Do you always save to the /same/ file? Could another process have "grabbed hold" of it? MS Word is a old hand at doing this; open even a text file in Word and nothing can update it (certainly /used/ to be the case anyway). It was "great fun" when some analyst opened up your server log file to have a look and all your logging just "stopped" 'til they clear off for lunch! > I get the feeling that it is ignoring the sub that is that save file > code, because that sub also indexes the packing index number and that > doesn't change. Does it do the file save first? Is so and the save is failing, that might be why the indexing doesn't get done either. > I have made no changes to the programme since it last worked, and made > no changes to the computer. The only thing I can think of is MS update > broke something again. Always a possibility but updates usually break the "outlying" bits of VB applications, the ActiveX Controls that we use but that aren't part of the VB product itself (and, therefore, that Our Friends in Redmond don't give a damn about). If your program is "pure" VB, without any external controls (which would be rare) then this shouldn't be an issue. HTH, Phill W. |