[MansoorBaig]

Hi, I feel someone can help me.
I am using vb6, in windows 7, 64 bit.

I find that every control i use on form doesnt drag with mouse smoothly ?
Such as button, text box, etc.

Could anyone help ?

[Martyr2]

Welcome to Dream.In.Code MansoorBaig! I think you may want to be asking this question in the VB6 forum. So I have moved it there.

As for your question, the reason it may not be "smooth" is because you have the "Snap to grid" feature on? This causes all elements you drag to snap to a layout grid on the form. This causes a slightly "choppy" type of movement as it is snapping to various points as you drag/resize the control.

The feature can be controlled under Tools > Options >General Tab > uncheck 'Align controls to grid'.

[BobRodes]

That's one of the things. The other is that using VB6 with Windows 7 causes the screen to refresh really slowly when you're dragging controls around, so it's hard to position them on the screen. Microsoft probably did this on purpose.

[maj3091]

You can get around this on win7 by doing the following.

Find the VB6.exe file and right-click and select properties.

Select the Compatibility tab.

Set compatibility mode to Window XP SP3.

Check: Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition, Disable Display Scaling on high DPI Settings.

If you do that, you will find it's smooth again.

[BobRodes]

I'm gonna try that when I get home, maj.

[maj3091]

Let me know if it works for you!

[KabaloKaNe]

maj3091, on 29 March 2012 - 11:29 PM, said:

You can get around this on win7 by doing the following.

Find the VB6.exe file and right-click and select properties.

Select the Compatibility tab.

Set compatibility mode to Window XP SP3.

Check: Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition, Disable Display Scaling on high DPI Settings.

If you do that, you will find it's smooth again.

Thanks. That solved the lag problem.