Ctrl+Break still not working in VB6

Hi,

I have to use VB6 (Microsoft Visual Basic 6) and it's extremely annoying that I cannot stop VB6 applications with Ctrl+Break (Actions, Send Keys, Ctrl+Break) while debugging them. This bug exists since 2.5 and is not fixed yet.

Example: Create a "Form" with a "Button". Write in the "Clicked" event handler a "MsgBox" command. Start the application with F5, click on the button and try to abort the application while the message box is shown.

Regards,
Mark Junker

 

Use Ctrl+F14 instead of Ctrl-Break

But this only works with an external keyboard (like the old, white and wireless keyboard i'm using), but not with the small new one or with the macbook keyboard.

Greetings, zyxxie

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MacBook CD with 2GHz and 2GB RAM, wireless keyboard+mouse (all white)
MacMini CD with 1.83GHZ and also 2GB RAM, wireless keyboard (silver)+mouse

 

This is a work-around I can live with. But using Ctrl+Break from the Parallels VM menu should work too ...

Regards,
Mark

 

workaround for XP users

+1 that it should work from the Parallels menu. Meantime if you're running XP:

Use on-screen keyboard application to enter the keystrokes. Verified works with runaway VBA code inside Access2007.

Found here: http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/give-me-a-break?opendocument&comments

 

This happens in vba running with Excel too. Very annoying.

 

Osk

This is a pain with VBA... roll on Office 2011 I guess, when we should have it in native mac Excel at least

Never come across OSK. Yes it works thanx but I agree with others, not the ideal answer.

 

You might want to try the freeware .
Enable to program easily any keystrokes compilations and even complicated programing (like if , for... opening programs ex...)

for CTRL + BREAK:

after installing - open the script file (my documents\ AutoHotKey.ahk) and just put the following :

^c::Send {CtrlBreak}

It will tell your windows to do CTRL + BREAK when you push on CTRL + c

Yaniv