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My company has a dispatching program written in vb 6.0 sp6 with about 10

supporting dll's. Last Saturday, I made a minor code change, recompiled and

distributed the new executable. Now the Time function does not work. It does

not work on any of the workstations with the new version and it does not work

on my development computer, for just that 1 program. If I start a new VB

project then it will work. When I debug the dispatch program and type "?

Time" in the command window, it just brings back an empty string. The Now()

function works just fine, and I am unaware of any other functions having

problems. Any ideas about what may have happened? I have double checked all

of my references and tried recompiling numerous times without success.


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What changes did you make to the application?



Details please!



Saga



"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message



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A report that is called was placed on a different server and the path was

hard coded into the program. I just went in and changed it to point to the

new location.







"Saga" wrote:

If you were working for me you would be fired in no time!!!!

You even do not know how to present the problem you created it in the first

place!!!!

Jack



"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message



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It sounds like you may have broken a Reference. Go to Project/References in

VB's menu and look to see if any unchecked ones are listed as MISSING. If

so, check the box. Worse comes to worse, you could use vba.Time in place of

Time in your code and that would probably force it to work, but it is better

to correct the underlying problem instead.



Rick



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Just what is it you do not understand about the problem? The Time function is

a built in VB function. It used to work. Now it does not. Any code that I

edit in the program should not affect this function. I opened the program,

changed a hard coded string value and recompiled. And now the function does

not work.



Maybe you should try using your brain and thinking a little before talking

like a lunatic. You don't sound like someone who works very well with others.



"Jack" wrote:

"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>schrieb im Newsbeitrag



VBAs Time-Function with another, similar named function.

Try to search your project for the string 'Time' (even

in the VB-Object-Explorer - maybe there's a Public

Method in a Component with the same Method-name.



If you don't find any other Definition for 'Time' in your project,

then you could try, to replace all occurences of your normal

Time-Function-usage with 'VBA.Time' - but that would be

only a workaround, wich ignores the real cause.



Olaf





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I believe it is the file path causing the problem, and I think the time is

the file access/create/modfiy time. Make sure your path is correct (inside

the vb program, use debug), and your app has the right to read/write from

the new location.

Unless you are junior-junior-junior-junior-junior application developer,

your skills are a little below the bar.

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cheers,

RL

"Schmidt" <sss@online.de>wrote in message



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You nailed it. I used the object browser and found a class in a supporing dll

that had been added to the project. It had a public variable in it called

Time. I renamed the variable and now it works. That class had been added a

while back but did not cause any problems until this latest compile.



Thanks for the great tip.



"Schmidt" wrote:

Egghead <robertlo@NO_SHAW.CA>wrote:

Wow. A little self-reflection, perhaps?

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This was my first post in msdn and I cannot believe the assinine reply's I

have received already. You call me a junior programmer and yet you throw out

a ridiculous idea like that. I would challenge you to show me a piece of code

that will do what you are suggesting. Is someone actually paying you nutjobs

money to write code for them?





"Egghead" wrote:

Mkjo <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:

Actually, you're posting to public newsgroups (see groups.google.com),">groups.google.com),

despite the pretty wallpaper Microsoft tries to cover that up with. And as such:



Welcome to the real world! :-)



S/he was actually calling Olaf that, this time. And that alone cements your

conclusion:



Nutjob all the way. Good call.

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"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

Score one *against* using GlobalMultiuse



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"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message



As you will have by now realised, you completely misjudged the situation and

you ended up shouting at EggHead for something you believe he said about you

when in fact he was talking to Olaf Schmitt at the time. Mind you, I quite

like the fact that you reprimanded Egghead because he should not himself

have been shouting down Olaf Schmidt (who, along with some others here, came

up with the correct solution for you) and also because EggHead has shown

himself to be stupid and nasty and, incidentally, totally wrong, and he is

therefore fully worthy of your contempt.



In any case, as you have recently discovered, this is usually a very good

place to come to when you have a problem. You just need to have a bit of a

thick skin ;-)



Welcome to the group ;-)



Mike





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"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>schrieb im Newsbeitrag



references in your project changes - read Ricks reply again.



Olaf





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"Mkjo" <Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com>schrieb im Newsbeitrag



group - you simply had bad luck today I would gess. ;-)



at least 15 years, simply blown away by eggheads grace.

<g>



Olaf





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Hi here,



Without knowing your programming style, I am guessing your path string is

wrong. It is because I think you have a variable name Time which you do

something with the code, not the time function at all.



Do you test your app at all?



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cheers,

RL

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.org>wrote in message



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Yo Egghead! Do you grok the concept of *threaded* newsreaders???

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Egghead <robertlo@NO_SHAW.CA>wrote:





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I probably should just ignore these guys, but I wasn't expecting people like

that to be posting here.



But in fairness to the group, I have never recieved such quick and usefull

replies in response to my posts for help before. I am 1 of 2 programmers at

our company and when we have issues, we have very few resources to turn to

for help.



So I guess I will have to take the good with the bad.



Again, thanks for the help.



"Schmidt" wrote:

"Egghead" <robertlo@NO_SHAW.CA>wrote in message



Stop squirming, Egghead. You're just digging a deeper hole for yourself than

you're already in. You were totally WRONG when you posted your own initial

response, and you were totally WRONG when you berated Olaf Schmidt,

especially since it turns out that Olaf was one of the people who posted the

RIGHT answer! And now, hours after reading the correct solution posted by

others, and one hour after the original poster, Mkjo, has offically

confirmed on the group that those answers were indeed correct, you have

decided to attempt a quick about turn, pretending that you know the correct

answer when you really did not know it at all! We can all see that you have

had at least two hours to read the various correct answers, and at least one

full hour to read Mkjo's response in which he confirmed Olaf's solution as

being the correct one, and yet you are pretending that you have not read

that message at all and that you have not even read all the other earlier

messages in which the correct solution was posted, and you are pretending

that you came up with the answer yourself, totally independently. We all

know that you're lying, Egghead, and we all know that you are squirming

about in the hole that you have dug for yourself. You're an idiot, Egghead,

a stupid idiot, and you are apparently also a crap programmer!



Mike







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In article <5056F27F-29BD-4319-91EC-7EFCE05B2109@microsoft.com>,

Mkjo@discussions.microsoft.com says...

They are everywhere, in greater or lesser numbers. Some groups have few

of them, some have lots, but there are always some.



Yes, it's a very knowledgable group; just a bit opinionated and

idiosyncratic at times.



....



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newsgroups if possible).

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"David Kerber" <ns_dkerber@ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com>wrote in message

I know exactly what you mean.



In my opinion the other people around here are a bit peculiar.



-ralph

<g>





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Apparently Jack doesn't know "Jack". :o



"Mkjo" wrote: