ID Number: Q76555
1.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
Italic letters of any size are incorrectly truncated when typed in a
text box. Also, using the BACKSPACE key to delete characters leaves
pieces of characters when using italic text or large fonts.
This information applies to Microsoft Visual Basic programming system
version 1.0 for Windows. This is a problem with Windows 3.0, not
Microsoft Visual Basic.
More Information:
To work around this problem, you can use the Refresh method during the
text box change event to correctly update the screen. However, this
will also cause some visible flickering as you type characters into
the text box.
Steps to Reproduce Problem
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1. Place a large text box on a blank form.
2. Set the text box FontSize property to any size above 12 points,
or set the FontItalic property to True.
3. From the Run menu, choose Start.
4. Type anything in the text box.
5. Press BACKSPACE.
Note: If the font size is large, the font will be displayed correctly
until the characters are removed with the BACKSPACE key. Italic
characters will be displayed incorrectly when entered into the text
box, and backspacing will truncate the deleted characters.
To correct the appearance of the characters in the text box, add the
following code to the text box's Change event.
Sub Text1_Change ()
Text1.Refresh
End Sub
The above code will make the text box update the visual display every
time a change is made, thereby correcting the problem. However, it
will generate a flicker of the text box.
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