FIX: Mouse Button Value Is Always 4 in MouseUp Event of SSTab

 Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
Article ID: Q171491
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When the value of the mouse button is queried in the MouseUp event of the Tabbed Dialog control, it always returns a value of 4. It should return a value of either 1, 2, or 4.

RESOLUTION

This problem is fixed in the newer version of the Tabbed Dialog control (TABCTL32.OCX) provided with Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

You can work around the problem by using a global variable that is set to the value of Button in the MouseDown event, or using the MouseDown event that reports the value of the mouse button correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q171554
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97
               Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

The value of Button should indicate which button was pressed, as follows: 

   1  -  Left button is pressed
   2  -  Right button is pressed
   4  -  Middle button is pressed

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Start a new Visual Basic 5.0 Standard EXE project.

  2. Choose Components from the Project menu, check the "Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 5.0," and click OK.

  3. Place a Tabbed Dialog control on the default Form.

  4. Place this code statement in the MouseUp event of the Tab control: 

          MsgBox Button

  5. Press the F5 key to run the project. Note that when you click anywhere on the control, you will see that the value displayed is always 4.

REFERENCES

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Online Help, topic "MouseUp event" 

Keywords          : vb5all VS97FixlistSP3 VS97FixlistSP2 VB5FixlistSP2
Version           : 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
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