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Help, i have made a small game with visual basic 6.0 and i wanted to make it .exe ,but when i clicked File--> make (name).exe... and then i went to find the game i found (imagine) a file "(name).Visual Basic Project Workspace what i did wrong?
Help!!!
Dude, you probably did something dumb like save your file rather than compile it.
Damn, mess around with the program a bit more before posting "Help!!!!!!!!!" threads. Its not a complex task to compile. Click File, Make, Ok. If you can't follow that theres no hope for you. Leave home and become a weasel polisher or something.
Damn, you got ripped by the last guy. But really, compiling isn't that hard. However, the same thing has happened to me before but I just compiled the program again and it worked.
Thankz guys.
This guy, claims to have written a "small game" in VB. Ok thats fair, but if you have the knowlege to write the code and draw the forms then how on gods green earth do you not know how to compile it? All you do is click "make exe".
It all depends on what make of 6.0 you have, if you bought it off the shelf or got it in a school book, because the version of 6.0 I have, does not allow making a project into a .exe.
Yeah, they make you pay more for certain versions that let you actually compile it. I hope that's not the case, because AFAIK there isn't much you can do for free about it. Don't forget to view the 'advanced' properties or option of the save dialog, if any.
When i first did that you told me i didn't have any problem, but now i have again. When i went again File--> make (name).exe... then i saw a bar up-right and it has written on it "compiling..." then, when it finished other bar appeared which, has written on it "WRITING exe..." when it is going to finished the program it appears alter message that says a problem cause VB6 and a dll file.
help because i'm going to be crazy.
Try adding the .exe extension manually, e.g. make -> game.exe then enter 'game.exe' (without the quotes) into the text box.
But it has only one sentence "make game.exe..." and "make project group..." and the second one isn't available.
I think the question is what version of VB do you have. There seems to be some bug in it that's not your fault, and there may be nothing you can do about it except get another copy of VB.
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Originally posted by NoNeckJoe
This guy, claims to have written a "small game" in VB. Ok thats fair, but if you have the knowlege to write the code and draw the forms then how on gods green earth do you not know how to compile it? All you do is click "make exe".
Be nice NoNeckJoe.. the first thing I wrote in VB was Yahtzee... and I knew nothing about the programming language or the interface.. its aimed to be easy, but it doesn't play nice a lot of the time.. *(VB, not my Yahtzee game :D )
I went to HELP--> About and it writes version 8176 VBA: Retail 6.0.8169 Forms3: 2.01 is there any update for this? Pleaze.
What I mean is not to call the file <game> but <game.exe> when you compile it. It's a bit difficult to explain without actually showing you! :D
i did this pwarning but it made everything i made (forms and dialogs) as (file).OBJ i don't know what happen.
I don't have much experience in VB specifically, but when I have programming problems like this (ie. something very simple that should work, with no obvious solutions, usually at the compiling stage) sometimes I find that if I basically start all over from scratch, it works(sometimes). It's a pain, but when you have no other options... Anyway, just try testing your compiler, write and compile something else to see if it works. Hope I could help.
I found the problem, the version it couldn't let you to make an .exe file a update the version with the sevice pack5
well i am glad it was fixed, but another thing that i noticed about vb is that if you name an exe the same name as the project, it can get confused.... but that was an older version of vb
i don't think that it happened on vb.
no, it most definitely happened with VB. if i can find it, i'll get you the version number. the patched it pretty quickly. this was prolly 2-3 years back, so i will see if i can find it.
I am going to wait but not for much time.
first of all it bothers me how u noe enuff bout vb6 syntax to make a game in a programming language that iz ideal for making applications rather dan games and still not noe how to publish it. after lookin at da replies of others, i wud hav to say dat it has to be in da vb. As fas as i noe, those cds dat u get in da baq of those "VB6 for idiots" type of books will not allow u to create .exe files. I recommend dat u get da pro edition or any oda version dat allows u to publish especially if it will only make da vbw file instead of da exe file. diz iz ur best bet unless lord darkside can get u dat version # to patch it up