How to write to a debug console in VB6?
This isn't expected to be the accepted answer because Debug.Print is the way to go for IDE testing.
However just to show how to use the standard I/O streams easily in VB6:
Option Explicit
'
'Reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime.
'
Public SIn As Scripting.TextStream
Public SOut As Scripting.TextStream
'--- Only required for testing in IDE or Windows Subsystem ===
Private Declare Function AllocConsole Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function GetConsoleTitle Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "GetConsoleTitleA" ( _
ByVal lpConsoleTitle As String, _
ByVal nSize As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FreeConsole Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Allocated As Boolean
Private Sub Setup()
Dim Title As String
Title = Space$(260)
If GetConsoleTitle(Title, 260) = 0 Then
AllocConsole
Allocated = True
End If
End Sub
Private Sub TearDown()
If Allocated Then
SOut.Write "Press enter to continue..."
SIn.ReadLine
FreeConsole
End If
End Sub
'--- End testing ---------------------------------------------
Private Sub Main()
Setup 'Omit for Console Subsystem.
With New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set SIn = .GetStandardStream(StdIn)
Set SOut = .GetStandardStream(StdOut)
End With
SOut.WriteLine "Any output you want"
SOut.WriteLine "Goes here"
TearDown 'Omit for Console Subsystem.
End Sub
Note that very little of the code there is required for an actual Console program in VB6. The bulk of it is about allocating a Console window when the program is not running in the Console Subsystem.
Use debug.print. But there is no console on a VB6 application, that will print to the debug window.