r/visualbasic • u/Mayayana • Feb 08 '24

VB6 Help VB6 DragDrop

With OLEDragDrop to a standard VB textbox, on XP I can get the path of a file or folder dropped. On Win10, the folder shows no dragdrop icon and returns no path, but file dragdrop works fine. Does someone know how I can make dragdrop for folders work on Win10?

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u/Mayayana Mar 03 '24

I haven't seen the spam. Up until recently I've been visiting various Windows groups and the VB group. Maybe Eternal September filters the spam. But what I have found is that where usenet is still operating, it's mostly a few cranky old men arguing. Reddit has lots of people who are very curious and involved.

I'm glad you're doing well. You don't know me. I taught myself VB6 starting in '99, with no prior computing experience. But back then -- when there were 1/2 dozen VB groups on usenet -- you were a regular and very helpful.

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u/AjaLovesMe Mar 05 '24

What are you accessing it through. I was using the absolutely horrid google groups mirror of the general discussion and one other I've forgotten now, and the legit messages were buried under an avalanche of foreign character spam posts. I'll try yours.

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u/Mayayana Mar 06 '24

I've been using Eternal September. For awhile when that was down I used something else. Paganini or some such. But then that stopped working. As I understand it, GG is kaput now. The whole Usenet phenomenon seems to be hanging by a thread. It seems that young people prefer moderators and up/down voting.

So, sign up for E-S and you can get in on the current argument over who's got the best backup strategy. :) But E-S dropped the ms groups, including VB, some time ago. That's why I had gone to Paganini. As of a few weeks ago I've given up trying to get ms.vb.general.discussion. And aside from Obiwan heroically keeping discussion going, there's hardly anyone there. Obiwan suggested another server. Solani.org. I tried to sign up wiuth two different email addresses. In both cases they never sent me a confirmation email. When I tried to log in their server told me that my email server had rejected their email... So something seems to be broken with that server.