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Brian Hooper
Brian Hooper

Reputation: 22074

Box containing all the controls has disappeared from my VB6 development environment

I'm using the VB6 development environment, and when I started it up this morning, the project displayed as usual, but the immediate box also appeared (even though the program was not running).

However, the box down the left-hand edge where one selects the controls to add to a form has also disappeared. Does anyone know what that box is officially called, so I can find it in the help text, or point me to the place to get it back again?

Edit: I restarted the VB6 environment again and now the properties panel at lower right has vanished.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 976

Answers (2)

Brandon Moore
Brandon Moore

Reputation: 8790

There should also be an icon in your toolbar for displaying the toolbox.

Upvotes: 0

Deanna
Deanna

Reputation: 24283

As Alex K said, View, Toolbox for the control window, Properties/F4 for the properties window, etc. If they keep disappearing randomly, it could indicate a corrupt value or even worse, general memory/disk corruption.

The values themselves are stored as a large BLOB under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\6.0\ in the UI and possibly the DockSDI values. You could try deleting these and see if it happens again.

Upvotes: 6

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