FIX: Setting Font Property Causes Error 438 with RichTextBox

 Last reviewed: December 18, 1997
Article ID: Q171510
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When using the RichTextBox control (richtx32.ocx), setting the Font property will cause the following message to be displayed: 

   “Run-time error '438':
   Object doesn't support this property or method”
This behavior occurs when a RichTextBox is placed on a form using the RichTextBox Control (RICHTX32.OCX) that comes with Visual Basic 4.0 and subsequently executed after the RICHTX32.OCX file has been upgraded to the one that shipped with Visual Basic 5.0.

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

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. On a Visual Basic 4.0 development machine, create a new project.

  2. Insert a RichTextBox control onto the default form.

  3. In the Form's code window add the following code: 

          Private Sub Form_Load()

             RichTextBox1.Font="fixedsys"
      End Sub


  4. Compile the project into an EXE.


  5. Take this EXE to a machine that has Visual Basic 5.0 and run
   the application.

 

Keywords          : VB4WIN vb5all VS97FixlistSP3 kberrmsg VS97FixlistSP2 VB5FixlistSP2
Version           : 4.0 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack


	
			
	















	






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	Last reviewed:  December 18, 1997
	

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