Re: Using the registry for automatic startup - Visual Basic Discussion Boards

Dave Kreskowiak5-Nov-09 4:24

5-Nov-09 4:24

You probably won't get a response to your question here.

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Missing Caption in Application

mdrizwan_14-Nov-09 22:01

mdrizwan_1

4-Nov-09 22:01

Hello please some body help me its urgent?

I m in trouble. While working on an VB6 application in Vss mode. i got system error. when i run this application captions of all buttons where gone. Can anybody help me? why this happens and how to get back the captions?

please Help??????????

Re: Missing Caption in Application

Mycroft Holmes4-Nov-09 22:13

Mycroft Holmes

4-Nov-09 22:13

VB6 - probably not, it is no longer a supported platform.

What is Vss mode?

I presume you are debugging the application not just running it from the exe.

I seem to remeber something like this happening, I have no idea how it was fixed, I'd close all other apps and try again, reboot if that does not work. I would get there is a problem between your app and windows.

Re: Missing Caption in Application

mdrizwan_14-Nov-09 22:26

mdrizwan_1

4-Nov-09 22:26

VSS - Visual Source Safe.

And i had restart the system but problem not solved? m dont no? wat to do?

Re: Missing Caption in Application

Shameel5-Nov-09 1:24

Shameel

5-Nov-09 1:24

What is VSS mode? Are you referring to debugging the app inside the VB6 IDE ?

Re: Missing Caption in Application

Christian Graus5-Nov-09 10:51

Christian Graus

5-Nov-09 10:51

You should put VB6 in your subject, because it's been obsolete for so long, you'd need to work harder to attract people who still remember how they used to use it. Do you have the source code ? I assume so. Does the code set the text on the controls ? Have you tried running it on another machine ? It's either the case that your source code somehow lost all the text on the buttons ( in which case, you have source control to wind it back ), or something is broken on your computer, not your source code.

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Using the registry for automatic startup

RyJaBy4-Nov-09 3:26

RyJaBy

4-Nov-09 3:26

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew how to put your application into the msconfig startup folder using the registry. I tried using the following code but for some reason it isnt working for me. it will work when i debug, but when i publish the application it doesnt work.

Private Sub addstart()

       registrykey = CreateObject("WScript.shell")
       registrykey.RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN\" & App, filepath)


   End Sub
   Private Sub removeStart()
       On Error Resume Next


       registrykey = CreateObject("WScript.shell")
       registrykey.RegDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN\PEM beta.exe")
   End Sub

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

Dave Kreskowiak4-Nov-09 4:44

Dave Kreskowiak

4-Nov-09 4:44

RyJaBy wrote:
how to put your application into the msconfig startup folder

And just what do you mean by "msconfig startup folder"?? What do you mean by "it doesn't work"?

The Run key values are all command lines that execute only when a user logs in. The name/value pair you create in the Run key must have a unique name and its value must be a valid command line that would work just as if you copied it into the Start/Run box.

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Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

RyJaBy4-Nov-09 6:37

RyJaBy

4-Nov-09 6:37

If you go to run and you type in msconfig you will get a window,"system configuration utility" that has a tab on it called startup. In the tab is all the applications that run when your computer starts up. When it was working, it would put the name of my application into this list on the startup tab, it does that when i am debugging. When i publish the application and install it on my computer, it doesnt write its name into that list when i tell it to.

Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

Dave Kreskowiak4-Nov-09 8:36

Dave Kreskowiak

4-Nov-09 8:36

That tab is just a compilation of the various startup locations that track which application should launch when a user logs in. Those include the Run keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well as the shortcuts that appear in "Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" and "Documents and Settings\<user id="">\Start Menu\Programs\Startup".

Your code won't work for a list of reasons. The first of which is that you have On Error Resume Next in there and it's eating your error messages.

Your code should look like this:

Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.shell")
wshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN\" & App, filepath

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Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

Shameel5-Nov-09 1:27

Shameel

5-Nov-09 1:27

Remove the demon "On Error Resume Next" and you will be able to see what the problem is. Most probably, you have an access issue, the account under which the code runs must have permissions to modify the registry key.

Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

Dave Kreskowiak5-Nov-09 4:08

Dave Kreskowiak

5-Nov-09 4:08

Yeah, there's a lot more wrong with his code than access permissions to the Run key... I think I found at least 5 errors in his two lines of code.

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Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

RyJaBy5-Nov-09 6:57

RyJaBy

5-Nov-09 6:57

Is going through the registry even a good way to try to have your application run on startup? Or should I be trying to find a different way to do this. Maybe is there a way to, using code, create a shortcut in the startup folder? and would you be able to delete this shortcut using code, so the user would not have to do anything except check a box? I would like the user to be able to select an option that would cause the application to start automatically.

Thanks

Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

Dave Kreskowiak5-Nov-09 8:15

Dave Kreskowiak

5-Nov-09 8:15

You're already doing it. You either put the shortcut in one of the four startup locations mention in my previous post, or you don't bother with it at all.

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Re: Using the registry for automatic startup

RyJaBy6-Nov-09 2:48

RyJaBy

6-Nov-09 2:48

Thank you very much for your help.

types of loop

Matsyendra3-Nov-09 21:32

Matsyendra

3-Nov-09 21:32

send ans with code

Re: types of loop

Matsyendra3-Nov-09 21:46

Matsyendra

3-Nov-09 21:46

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Re: types of loop

Richard MacCutchan3-Nov-09 23:14

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3-Nov-09 23:14

Matsyendra wrote:
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Re: types of loop

EliottA4-Nov-09 2:36

EliottA

4-Nov-09 2:36

He doesn't have code, he is doing basic homework. Name types of loops, (while, for, do while, etc) and he needs to provide (probably) the syntax for each of them as well as the differences.

Fail.

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Re: types of loop

Luc Pattyn4-Nov-09 2:48