released on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:06:00 -0700 bearing the
following fruit:
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>VB6SP6
>Ran into a barrier and big trouble.
>Adding menu items and was scolded that I had too many.
>So I deleted and deleted and still got the error mssage.
>Then I closed the Menu Editor to find that ALL of my previoulsy OK menu
>items were all erased!!! Gone, totally - all traces that I ever had a menu
>items.
>Bad form M$ !!!
>1) where in the IDE does it tell you how many controls are in use??? Room
>for how many more ???
>2) what constitutes a control? All menu entry levels (each one counted) or
>only the top level entries?
>3) If I index the menu sub entries will that count as only one control?
>Do not want to waste too much time on this as an investigton.
>Hopefully someone knows the secrets.
You are limited in the number of control names you can have,
so yes creating control indexes gets round the issue.
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>I am sure M$ will immediately fix this and issue a release and include the
>correction in the forthcoming new VB (not .net). lol
It's all documented, it's not a bug. It's a feature.
J
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>Yes, I have been rewriting and using indexed controls to reduce this poor
>limit.
>But not sure how this all plays with menu items ... and ... whatelse ???
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