Settings Box Is Hidden When Properties Bar at Bottom of Screen

ID Number: Q72881

1.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

When the Properties bar is positioned at the bottom of the screen and

an enumerated property, such as FontName, is selected from the

Settings box, the FontName list is still displayed beneath the

Properties bar, instead of above the Properties bar, making the

FontName list essentially invisible. Because of this behavior,

Microsoft recommends leaving the Properties bar at the top of the

screen.

Note: The Properties bar's entry field is not a combo box, and does

not react as a combo box.

This information applies to Microsoft Visual Basic programming system

version 1.0 for Windows.

More Information:

When you open a combo box and the space below is insufficient to

display the drop-down list, the list will be displayed above the combo

box window. This is exactly how the combo box "Properties list box"

displays when the Properties bar is moved to the bottom of the screen.

Although the Settings box resembles a combo box, the Settings box is

actually an edit box and a push button. This window is not a combo box

because the push button can take on several functions. In some cases

the Settings box is disabled, and in some cases it invokes a pop-up

dialog box (for example, when you select the Picture property of the

Picture control). In other cases, such as for the FontName property,

the Settings box displays a Windows list box just under the Properties

bar. The location of the list box is determined by Visual Basic and

will always be displayed below the Properties bar.

Microsoft recommends leaving the Properties bar at the top of the

screen.

Reference:

Please refer to pages 38-39 of the "Microsoft Visual Basic:

Programmer's Guide" for version 1.0 for definitions of Properties bar,

Properties list box, and Settings box.