MS Access 2016 Treeview error: "No object in this control element. Runtime error 438"

Question

I have a problem to open the treeview in MS Access. I think it's since the last windows update.

I'm getting an error message when I start the program:

"There is no object in this control element. Runtime error 438: Object does not support this property or method."

The debugger marks one line yellow in the vba code: CreateTree TreeView0.Nodes.

I didn't change anything since the last time. There it has still worked. I did the following steps, but they all didn't help:

• reinstalled MS Access
• repaired MS Access
• exchanged the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.ocx, unregistered and registered it
• updated VB6 to the latest version
• added the database again

I hope that someone can help me!

Answer 1

This is a known new bug in mscomctl.ocx in many localisations - if not all, including English.

From one of the reportings:

Now they are experiencing the problem also with MSI installations of Office 2016 which have been updated by the Windows update of Aug 1. On these systems mscomctl.oxc seems to not have been updated as it still showed version 6.1.98.46.

They had to disinstall the update of Aug 1 (KB4011051 -> no mention there of this issue) to get rid of the problem.

There is at this moment no info from MS when and how it will be corrected.