DOCERR: Columns Collection Does Not Have a Font Property

 Last reviewed: May 22, 1996
Article ID: Q143423
The information in this article applies to:
  • Standard, Professional and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Attempting to set or read the Font property of a column in a DBGrid control results in error 438 - "Object doesn't support this property or method."

RESOLUTION

The individual columns of the DBGrid control cannot be set to a specific font. The column objects of the DBGrid control do not support this property. Page 138 of the "Microsoft Visual Basic Language Reference," as well as the online help incorrectly document "Font" as being a property of the individual columns of the Columns collection.

Use the Object Browser to determine what properties are supported by an object. To launch the Object Browser, when Visual Basic is running, click the F2 key, or click the Object Browser on the View menu.

To determine what properties are supported by the DBGrid control, select the MSDBGrid - Apex Data Bound Grid Library from the Libraries / Project drop-down combo box. In the Classes / Module list, select Column. The methods and properties supported by this object are listed on the right.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

KBCategory: kbprg kbprb kbdocerr
KBSubcategory: PrgCtrlsThird
Additional reference words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all

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Last reviewed: May 22, 1996
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