I have a VB6 SP5 application that compiles and runs. When I run the application in Visual Studio, VB6 crashes after about 2-4 start/stop cycles for the application. I stop the application by clicking on the application's exit button, not through the toolbar in visual studio. If I compile and install the application it does not crash (i.e. exhibit this behavior).
I tracked down the point of failure and it occurs when the application loads the splash form (about 4 lines into the code!). Note, the application only crashes when it is loading the splash form and not when the application exits.
The splash form only has a couple of labels and 2 bitmap images. If I remove the images from the splash form, the application does not crash in Visual Studio. I added the images to the splash screen at design time using the Picture property.
I hope I am not chasing ghosts, but it bothers me that my app makes VB6 crash consistently when run from Visual Studio.
I would appreciate any and all suggestions for solving this problem!
Thanks!
Mark
Code for the splash form:
Code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Load()
With Me
.Top = (Screen.Height - .Height) / 2
.Left = (Screen.Width - .Width) / 2
.lblTitle.Caption = gTITLE
.lblProduct.Caption = gPRODUCT
.lblVersion.Caption = "v" & App.Major & "." & App.Minor & "." & App.Revision
.lblDescription.Caption = gDESCRIPTION
.lblNotice.Caption = gNOTICE
End With
End Sub
Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
Unload Me
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Terminate()
'Debug.print "*** Terminate frmSplash"
End Sub
Code in SubMain to launch the app:
Code:
Sub Main()
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
'show the splash screen for a minimum of SPLASH_SCREEN_DELAY milliseconds
'while getting everything ready
m_blnTimerDone = False
m_blnLogEnabled = False
m_lngTimerID = SetTimer(0, 0, SPLASH_SCREEN_DELAY, AddressOf Timer_CBK)
' frmSplash.Show
frmTest.Show
DoEvents
'...and we crash before DoEvents!
Splash form problems
