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Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app

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>>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:36:25 +0100
>>> (comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion)
>>> <20191205143625.00006dd2@eternal-september.org>
>>> Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> wrote:
>
>> Let me know if it will help sorting out your issue, notice that it
>> could be a good idea to have a look at the other tools on that site,
>> they may come really useful at times, then, for more tools, also have
>> a look at the Nir Sofer website https://www.nirsoft.net/ - notice that
>> some of the tools offered may be flagged by some AVs as "dangerous",
>> this does NOT mean they're malware or whatever, just that they allow
>> to perform operations which a regular user won't usually need to
>> perform :)
>
> Also, and since we're at it, you may consider the idea of picking this
> simple (yet useful) tool
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/debugview
>
> at that point, in your own VB code, add a bas module containing the
> following code
>
> ' ====================================================================
> Private Declare Sub OutputDebugString Lib "kernel32" 
>                           Alias "OutputDebugStringA" _
>                           (ByVal lpString as String)
>                           
>                           
>                           
> Public Sub DbgPrint(ByVal sTxt As String)
>   Dim sStr As String
>   
>   sStr = "["  & App.ExeName & "] " & sTxt & vbCrLf & Chr(0)
>   Call OutputDebugString(sStr)
> End Sub
> ' ====================================================================
>
> now, throughout your code, whenever you'll want to have some diagnostic
> message, just add a call to the DbgPrint sub, at this point, to view
> the messages, even in the compiled (exe or dll) program, just fire the
> debugview tool (link above) set the filter to only show messages from
> your application (that is "[youappname]") and start (or load) your
> application :)

Arne,
Not sure I follow; - I already implement a central error handling system that 
writes to error.log so what useful purpose would a runtime messaging system 
serve? (I haven't read the link yet!)

-- 
Garry

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MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-02 11:11 -0500
  Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-04 09:46 +0100
    Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-04 12:59 -0500
      Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-05 09:44 +0100
        Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-05 03:57 -0500
          Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-05 10:11 +0100
            Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-05 04:39 -0500
    Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-05 07:27 -0500
      Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-05 14:36 +0100
        Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-05 08:39 -0500
        Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-05 14:46 +0100
          Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-05 15:58 -0500
            Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-06 09:29 +0100
              Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-06 04:47 -0500
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-06 13:16 +0100
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-06 12:52 -0500
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app Arne Saknussemm <idm.10.arnsak@mamber.net> - 2019-12-09 09:28 +0100
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-09 03:52 -0500
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app ObiWan <obiwan@mvps.org> - 2019-12-09 10:12 +0100
                Re: MS Excel COMAddins Manager VB6 app GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-12-09 09:42 -0500

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