BUG: OLE Container Launches Word When Resized

• Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Resizing the Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 OLE Container control at run-time, when it contains a Microsoft Word document, causes Word to be launched. This behavior is different if a Microsoft Excel Worksheet or other OLE Server document is embedded in the OLE Container control. This is also different than the behavior in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft is researching this issue and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps To Reproduce Problem

1. Place an OLE Container Control on a form. Insert a Word document into the control by selecting any Word file in the Insert Object dialog box.

2. Place a Command button on the form and place the following code in the Click event for the button:

         'Resize the control
   

         OLE1.Width = 2 * OLE1.Width
   

         'Test if the application is running
   

         Msgbox OLE1.AppIsRunning
   

3. Run the program by pressing the F5 key and then press the Command button. Notice that Word is launched by the True result of the MsgBox.

Keywords          : PrgOther VB4ALL VB4WIN vbwin GnrlVb kbprg
Technology        : kbvba
Version           : WINDOWS:3.0 4.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug