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I was able to get VB themed with a manifest file on XP. It should work for Windows 7 but haven't tried it yet. Using the same manifest with scriba didn't display the form.  :'(

Here is the VB6.EXE.manifest you will need to get VB6 theme support on XP.


--- Code: ---<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <assemblyIdentity
    version="6.00.9782.0"
    processorArchitecture="X86"
    name="Visual Basic"
    type="win32"
    />
  <description>Microsoft Corporation VB6</description>
    <dependency>
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity
                type="win32"
                name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
                version="6.0.0.0"
                processorArchitecture="X86"
                publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
                language="*"
             />
        </dependentAssembly>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity
                type="win32"
                name="Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus"
                version="1.0.0.0"
                processorArchitecture="X86"
                publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
                language="*"
             />
        </dependentAssembly>
    </dependency>
<!-- Identify the application as DPI-aware: Vista and above -->
  <asmv3:application xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
      <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">
        <dpiAware>true</dpiAware>
      </asmv3:windowsSettings>
  </asmv3:application>
</assembly>

--- End code ---

Support:
Here is what a VB6 application looks like themed on Windows 7.

CommonControls (Replacement of the MS common controls)



I will try to get VB6 theming working on Windows 7 64 bit tomorrow.

Support:
Poking around there seems to a focused effort on keeping VB Classic alive. I think it's great Dave is showing what the intent of VB was but never embraced. (building COM objects that can be used by other languages)

I'm still trying to get VB6 theming working on Windows 7 and will post something when I get it working. I think creating a current VB6 distributables zip would help this project out a lot. I need to revisit the VB6 controls edition again now that it seems to have purpose to me.

 

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I was able to find a VB5CCE (Visual BASIC 5 Controls Creation Edition) with help files. You can download it HERE. The manifest file I posted above will work with the VB5CCE version if you rename it to vb5cce.exe.manifest. The conrol edition will let you create standard Windows forms but are saved as a project file and can't be compiled to a .exe.

dzzie:
I just did a couple quick tests with vb5 cce since it had been a while.

We can not host usercontrol UIs at the moment, but you can use code in the usercontrol the same as if it were just a standard public class, its just that its UI wont be visible. From the "class" you can then display a traditional form object which can host the UI

In other news i figured out a way for the vb form to pass an arbitrary number of arguments to
the script basic callback, and to let the script basic call back return either a long or string.
that should cover most use needs I think.

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