[RESOLVED] vb6 keeps crashing so annoying

[ladoo]

when ever i open a project lightweight or heavy weighted with less forms or lots of modules it crashes when i try and compile , or when ever i run the exe from vb6 and close it bang crash i have to do so many repeats to fix my code again and again bec it crashes, it creates allot of obj files when it crashes so annoying , what can i do


am on winxp sp2

win7 , win8,,vista all just nonsence

nasa even users winxp this must tell u why xp is on top of all other lame os

microsoft windows 2007 beats ,vista,7,win8, all, winxp is top

[jmsrickland]

Maybe it's time for you to clean up your code. I suspect that you have intergrated much of your code from other sources and snippets from here and there. How big are your modules (in terms of byte size)? Are your project(s) crashing without any kind of warning or error messages? Do any of your projects use subclassing?

[ladoo]

even i open open fresh project , run , end and then close vb6 totally i get this error message crashed il post picture

[dilettante]

Funny how when the world moved off Win9x to Win2K and XP we heard exactly the same sort of complaints. Sorry, but it isn't the OS. Windows has just grown up and a lot of "iffy" things are no longer legal.

If I had to guess I'd say this is either subclassing related or a Data Execution Prevention issue.

[Max187Boucher]

you are subclassing or hooking and you did not close hook properly... sometimes a simple windows reboot will fix this

[ladoo]

uninstalled vb6 , reinstalled full bug free enterprise edition no errors now

[DataMiser]

It's funny I have been using VB6 for a bit over 12 years now under Windows 98, Me, NT, 2K, XP and 7. Written tons of projects both small and large and I'm not sure that the IDE has ever crashed on me. If so it has been so long ago I can't remember it. I have of course had it show as not responding several times but that was always due to a mistake in my code and have always managed to recover without closing the IDE.

Sub classing is something that you need to be very careful with because that can cause some real issues


As for XP being on top well I don;t know about that. It is heavily used for sure. There is a lot of software out there that does not work so well under the newer OS versions and a lot of people have older pcs, companies are slow to change the OS for many reasons but Windows 7 has a pretty good foot hold. For the last 2 years about 90% of my customers are using 7 prior to that about 95% were on XP and about 4% on Windows 2000 only 1 has been on Vista to date.

[ladoo]

nasa uses winxp on space station check on youtbe xp is best when it comes to running softwares

[DataMiser]

Why would I want to look at Youtube for that? Nasa uses a lot of old and outdated software as well, including one that I took part in writing back in the 90s, even then we had already updated and upgraded our software several times and were using Windows NT 4.0 where as they were still using Windows 3.11 and buggy software written in VB3 so that doesn't mean much to me.

[DataMiser]

Another thing you should consider when making claims about XP based on the space station is that it is not exactly new. The first components were launched before Windows XP was even released. I would not expect them to keep changing the OS every few years unless they needed to for some reason which is unlikely. That doesn't mean that XP is better or worse just that it does what they need it to do.


btw Last I heard Nasa still used DOS on some of their hardware. maybe we should all switch to that

[ladoo]

50 years from today xp will not forgoten still be used

[Bobbles]

50 years from today xp will not forgoten still be used

Not sure if it will still be used. (I will be 121 then, but If I am still alive, it will still be being used.)
What history will record is -
- XP was the pinnacle of MS OS's. It was downhill from then on.
- The 1950's to the 1980's was the pinnacle of economic development (for the masses), in the Western World. It was downhill from then on (for the masses).

[DataMiser]

Like all of the OS that came before there will come a time likely very soon to where XP can no longer support the hardware and it will fade away as the hardware changes. Some will still use it in a virtual mode under another OS but in time that 2 will fade away.

I use XP myself and I do like it even though I have some software that has issues on XP, actually worked better on Win98 I have other software that works better on Win7 and that will be more and more common.

XP is already feeling the pinch due to the fact that it is unable to support the amount of Ram that is shipping in most systems today, unfortunately as the average amount of ram increases so does the requirements of most programs, hardware vendors will stop making drivers and it will eventually not work on new hardware, nothing lasts forever.

[jmsrickland]

What about BetaMax? Anyone have a BetaMax player and tapes or discs whatever was used.

I still have a VCR and 100's of VCR tapes but you can't buy VCR tapes of new movies anymore. When my VCR finally breaks then what do I do? I can't buy a new VCR anymore or at least I haven't been able to find one but I can buy a DVD/VCR combo but I already have a DVD recorder/player.

Oh, the never ending changes of technology has cost me a fortune!

[DataMiser]

Just so you know a BetaMax is a VCR also. The others that won out are VHS

I also have 100s of tapes but only because my wife won't let me throw them out. I did transfer a few to DVD and I do still have two VHS systems which my wife sometimes uses but I can not stand to look at the poor quality picture of a Video Tape anymore. They really look bad on a large HD tv after watching HD video they don;t sound very good either and they get a bit worse everytime you play them.

So when the VCR breaks the best thing you can do is toss it in the garbage and forget about it. If you have Video tapes that you like and can't get on DVD then transfer them to DVD or convert them to AVI files on your PC while the VCR still works and you don't have to worry about it.

[jmsrickland]

I wasn't being technical. I know BetaMax is VCR. I was speaking in terms of format, not machine. Didn't make myself clear however.