Application Title Cut Off In VB6

Question

Platform: Windows XP Development Platform: VB6

When trying to set an application title via the Project Properties dialog on the Make tab, it seems to silently cut off the title at a set number of characters. Also tried this via the App.Title property and it seems to suffer from the same problem. I wouldn't care about this but the QA Dept. insists that we need to get the entire title displayed.

Does anyone have a workaround or fix for this?

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Edit: To those who responded about a 40 character limit, that's what I sort of suspected--hence my question about a possible workaround :-) .

Actually I posted this question to try to help a fellow developer so when I see her on Monday, I'll point her to all of your excellent suggestions and see if any of them help her get this straightened out. I do know that for some reason some of the dialogs displayed by the app seem to pick up the string from the App.Title setting which is why she had asked me about the limitation on the length of the string.

I just wish I could find something definitive from Microsoft (like some sort of KB note) so she could show it to our QA department so they'd realize this is simply a limitation of VB.

Answer 1

The MsgBox-Function takes a parameter for the title. If you dont want to change every single call to the MsgBox-Function, you could "override" the default behavior:

Function MsgBox(Prompt, Optional Buttons As VbMsgBoxStyle = vbOKOnly, Optional Title, Optional HelpFile, Optional Context) As VbMsgBoxResult
    If IsMissing(Title) Then Title = String(40, "x") & "abc"
    MsgBox = Interaction.MsgBox(Prompt, Buttons, Title, HelpFile, Context)
End Function

Edit: As Mike Spross notes: This only hides the normal MsgBox-Function. If you wanted to access your custom MsgBox from another project, you would have to qualify it.