I and several of my colleagues have encountered an irritating bug with VB 6 (sp5). Periodically you load a project & suddenly get a load of 'errors in formwhatever, see the .log file'. VB has lost a reference to either a date picker, or a perhaps a status bar & has changed them all to picture boxes.
You can, of course, re-do the reference, but that doesn't change all the wretched controls back to what they were - what a nightmare! In a big project you can waste hours returning it to how it was!! The problem seems to occur most frequently after an .exe has been compiled, so we have got into the habit of saving the development folder immediately before doing this, but it still catches us out occasionally.
So:
a) Has this happened to anyone else?
b) Why does it happen?
c) How can we stop it happening?
d) If it does happen, is there a quick solution?
Thanks in anticipation,
Phil
You can, of course, re-do the reference, but that doesn't change all the wretched controls back to what they were - what a nightmare! In a big project you can waste hours returning it to how it was!! The problem seems to occur most frequently after an .exe has been compiled, so we have got into the habit of saving the development folder immediately before doing this, but it still catches us out occasionally.
So:
a) Has this happened to anyone else?
b) Why does it happen?
c) How can we stop it happening?
d) If it does happen, is there a quick solution?
Thanks in anticipation,
Phil