ID Number: Q81223
1.00
WINDOWS
buglist1.00
Summary:
The Caption property of the Animated Button custom control allows up
to 255 characters to be entered, but only displays a varying number of
those characters. The number of characters displayed depends on the
FontSize and the width of the characters. The larger the font, or the
wider the characters, the less the number of characters that will
appear in the caption.
To work around this problem, you can make the font for the caption as
small as feasible, and whenever possible, use the smallest sized
characters.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Professional
Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic programming system version 1.0 for
Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information
here as it becomes available.
More Information:
Steps to Reproduce Problem
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1. Run Visual Basic, or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT,
F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by
default.
2. From the File menu, choose Add File. In the Files box, select the
ANIBUTTON.VBX custom control file. The Animated Button tool will
appear in the toolbox.
3. Place an Animated Button control on Form1.
4. From the Properties list box, select the Caption property for the
Animated Button control. Enter 255 "W" characters.
Notice that the caption of the Animated Button control is now
filled with W characters.
5. Maximize Form1 by clicking the maximize button in the upper-right
corner of Form1.
6. Stretch the right side of the Animated Button control so that you
can see the whole caption. (To do this, click on the control, and
pull the handle on the right side of the control.)
If you change the "W" characters to "I" characters, you will be able
see more of the characters in the caption before they are truncated.
This is due to the fact that the "I" character takes proportionately
less space than the "W" character.
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