Hello xcui588
The core of True Basic was written so long ago at Dartmouth (~'60's) that neither Windows nor mouse wheels existed at the time. The core of TB has never changed. Only thing that has ever changed were the various methods of getting it to work on Windows, (and Apple) . Now the latest versions have a "new" editor.
I only have the earlier versions of TB so I don't know if this will work on your v.6, but you can try it.
Use a text editor to write and save your programs. Just save them as txt files, since that's all a TB program is anyway, just a plain ASCII text file. You don't have to have the .tru extension.
Text editors have all sorts of features which are handy, which I don't think even the new v.6 editor has. Certainly no bugs. I find the free EditPad-Lite most satisfactory. Also NP++ is another good one. And the mouse wheel works!
Anyway, what I do is use the text editor for editing the code, saving it; and then using TB System (Or the old v.5 TB editor) to run it. The old TB editor (even the DOS one) would give you the line number and tell you what the error was if an error occurs.
Since line numbers in TB programs are unnecessary and are usually a nuisance, it is convenient to have the text editor indicate the line numbers thus facilitating finding the offending line in the program, especially when the programs start getting way over a thousand lines long. Been using this method for years and it's much quicker to use than it sounds.
The TB system.exe or the TB Gold.exe will run if double-clicked. They will run off of removable storage such as a flash drive, floppies, or anything you else you might have. Nothing has to get "installed" for these two exes to run. That is, unless the packaging of this new v.6 is such that one cannot access these two exe's directly. I have every Windows version of TB (up thru v5.5) that ever came out and have done it this way ever since. And all of them will work on every version of Windows. The only thing different between the Silver and Gold versions is that with Gold one can write dll's if one knows how to code in C.
But the lack of the mouse-wheel function is very annoying. And, it will probably never be implemented since they don't seem to be able to modify the core TB code. So I guess this isn't very much help to you. Sorry.
Regards,
Mike C.