VISTA Pro and VB6 Help system error

[Athena]

Hello,

I am running VB6 under Vista Pro. When I click on SQL words such as
INSERT, JOIN etc., the help window opens but comes with an error message
"There was a problem running the macro 1037". It still displays the help but
all the "See also, Example, Specifics" menu items disabled. I installed
WinHelp new version. Is there any work around for this problem? Thank you.

Athena

 

[Mr. Arnold]

"Athena" <hiittite@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:84D3DD8F-7AA4-4D15-827B-867F922BE9A9@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am running VB6 under Vista Pro. When I click on SQL words such as
> INSERT, JOIN etc., the help window opens but comes with an error message
> "There was a problem running the macro 1037". It still displays the help
> but all the "See also, Example, Specifics" menu items disabled. I
> installed WinHelp new version. Is there any work around for this problem?
> Thank you.
>

You should post to a Microsoft.Public VB NG about this.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Hi Athena,

It sounds like you're hitting the problem described in KB article 917607:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607

As described in that article, you need to add a "AllowProgrammaticMacros"
value to the registry, and set it to 1. Then the macros should run fine. For
some reason, the article talks a lot about using Group Policy editor to
control this value but you can just leap into Regedit on your machine and
set the value there.

Hope it helps!

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au