Stack Trace in VB6

Question

Is it possible to get the stack trace information in Visual Basic 6.0. I mean I want to find out the function name and exact line that causes the error similar to .NET stack

Answer 1

VB6 doesn't seem to have a decent way to do that natively.

It's a bit cumbersome, but you could put together a custom solution that adds lines to a text file whenever you want it to. Put together a method somewhere that looks like this:

Public Sub LogCall(message as String)
    Open "c:\My Documents\sample.txt" For Output As #1
    Print #1, message
    Close #1
End Sub

and then manually call it from your own functions

LogCall "MyFunction: Line 42"

It doesn't solve the problem, but it might help you narrow it down.

With regards to your specific error, I would go through and check situations where you're assigning an object to a variable - I find that it's easy to forget the Set keyword and get the exact same error when I least expect it.