add a msgbox to a vb6 reminder program for repeat reminders

Let me know if I should also due it for both one-time date and one-time time reminders and in those cases not say anything about "Repeating" them.

yes both dates and times

BTW you've never assigned point for this question.

This will mean another change to the dat file. Are there other people who use this calendar? If so what do you do when there's an updated dat file?

I am the only one  until we are done

OK good to know, that makes my changes easier now that I don't have to handle down-level versions prior to whatever the last one is.

In this release:
28931886.zip

Couple things the msg is behind frmReminder and not centered. Also row is no longer red text in
the grid

I believe the message is behind because frmReminder is topmost in your case, but I'll check that.

It's not centered because there could be one or more showing at the same time and if they were centered then all but one would be hidden.

It's not red because it's a daily reminder and the the due date has rolled over to the next day.

It's not red because it's a daily reminder and the the due date has rolled over to the next day.

I think it should be red until the messagebox is dismissed then the time updated

I don't think I can do anything about the time updating, but I may be able to keep the color.

confusing
Don't Think it is right to ask if the time should be saved for the next day if it already is

If you could do the Red that would be ok

Don't Think it is right to ask if the time should be saved for the next day if it already is

What do you mean?

I mean
"It will continue  unless deleted", but it already has been continued in the grid. That's ok if you could do the red  forecolor for the row

OK I understand what you mean.

 Your "Repeat reminder next week, month, year" etc or tomorrow for daily reminders proposal in the original post didn't say anything about what would happen if the reminder was deleted (although it should be obvious), and in my message which, for example, for a weekly reminder will say "It will continue next week unless deleted"  and I was trying to tell the user that it will repeat every week unless it is deleted.

Would you be happy with changing "continue" to "repeat" so the message will say "It will repeat next week unless deleted"?

Just doing the red forecolor for the row will be ok

This stays red.
28931886a.zip

I found a bug. If you add a daily reminder the Next Reminder at first becomes a large negative number which corrects itself after 10 seconds but then when I start to add a new weekly reminder an error occurs and the daily reminder's Dat/Time becomes a date rather than a time and other reminders start getting the same date/time. Ugh:(

Let me known its Fixed. I will test it

I've got a fix but I'm also trying to implement code that will assure that frmDue is always visible. In other words prevent it from ever being completely behind frmReminder.

Corrected the bug and while I can't always make frmDue be in front of frmReminder, I've added code to make it at least partially visible.
28931886b.zip

Can this be corrected:

What's wrong with it?

The msgbox is behind the form

Here's what I said above.

I can't always make frmDue be in front of frmReminder, I've added code to make it at least partially visible.

It has to do with topmost.

I am trying to think of a workaround. Maybe instead of frmDue a picturebox visible.
The way it is you can't click the buttons on frmDue

You never mentioned that before!  Let me look at the problem again.

New Bug
This Am dismissed Alerts
Then frmreminder Had a blank Entry in Reminder description
then i click view the rtf is correct but the description is missing
closed the app and reopened
the descripton was still blank
this means it was erased from disk

this means it was erased from disk

I don't think so. The Description is stored in the dat file, not in the rtf so look there for a blank in the Reminder Description column for a blank entry. If it happens again let me know.

ok

Concerning the not being able to click the buttons on frmDue problem. Try this version and let me know if it's better.
28931886c.zip

yes there is a blank
"Yr20160222150152.rtf","02-22-2016","","03-01-2017","Yearly","354 Days","View","X","509760","8:0|:-1|:-1","",""
i changed it yo  this:
"Yr20160222150152.rtf","02-22-2016","Nicky Birthday remind 8 days","03-01-2017","Yearly","354 Days","View","X","509760","8:0|:-1|:-1","",""
don't know how it happened, but something to watch

I tried your new version 2893188c.zip
frmDue did not show at all

To prevent the same message to show up multiple times while it's still due, I add the date to the dat file as shown here.


"Dy20160310131641.rtf","03-10-2016","daily 2","9:17 AM","Daily","Due","View","X",")","","","3/11/2016"

Delete the date (but not the quotes) and if it's due it will show up.

It sure seems to me that a picturebox would solve the frmDue problem

What would you expect to have happen if several came due at or near the same time?

never considered that

I guess an array of picture boxes, not sure

That's why frmDue is a better method.

Thank you