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Hotfix for your RTL VB 6 applications, for Win 7

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You moved to Windows 7 and tried to deploy and install Arabic or right-to-left VB6.0 application on this environment.

 

The VB 6.0 applications is working but with some exceptions.

 

Some symptoms of the issues:

• In VB 6IDE the devs are not allowed to set RighToLeft=True.

• Menus are Left aligned and is LTR

• Radio buttons: the circle is correct on the right, however, the text is left aligned and not right aligned

• Edit controls: the alignment is correct but in LTR reading order, so the neutral characters are misplaced on the right, instead of the left.

• ListBox and combobox, the dropdown button & list scrollbar are on the right , while the expected that they should appear on the left

• GroupBox, title is on the left, instead of the right.

There might be other issues, but the above were the most obvious and annoying from the customers perspective.

 

We identified that there is an issue with displaying right-to-left VB 6 applications in Win7 and there is a hotfix to fix your problem.

The hotfix is available for download at https://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=979643

You have to request it and the support team will send the hotfix to your email within a few minutes.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2011
    please send me the fix

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2011
    I need it for my programs in vb6 that run under win7. I already download it, but the password has been expired and I can't install it on my other customers new computers. pleasr help urgently.

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2011
    Try this new link: support.microsoft.com/.../KBHotfix.aspx Please tell me if you have more problems

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2014
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2015
    Hotfix is not working. So this is not a solution at all. Error: "The update is not applicable to your computer" So lets start from the beginning.