Like others on here I too have used VS6 to produce small programs that will be compatibile with the majority of Windows OSs. I have taken a program that I had previously written in Visual Studio 2005 and have reproduced it in Visual Studio 6. However I have an issue that I can not seem to work out. the original program (VS2005) had a progress bar control however I can not seem to get visual studio 6 to work when I try to add a progress bar. It does not even matter if the progress bar does anything or not, just the fact that I added a progress bar using the resource editor makes the program not run (or more specifically it runs but exits immediately with code 0). If I remove the progress bar then the program starts running correctly. Has anyone ever used progress bars with VS6? Is there more to it than what is involved in VS2005?
I've definitely 100% had this work on VS6 in some old project of mine, just make sure of these two things: a) in "resource.rc" file, check that the control is named "msctls_progress32" and style is "PBS_SMOOTH | WS_BORDER" (other styles probably work too, but this is what I used and known to work) b) make sure to include a ".manifest" file as a resource (type 24, id 1) so the common controls are initialized. example app.exe.manifest: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" name="MyApp" type="win32"/> <description>My App Description</description> <!-- Identify the application security requirements. --> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly> example line in "resource.rc" after including manifest Code: IDR_RT_MANIFEST 24 DISCARDABLE "app.exe.manifest" and "resource.h" Code: #define IDR_RT_MANIFEST 1