PRB: Form with Menu Displays Border w/ Borderstyle Set to None

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

A Form with a menu displays a border and a titlebar when the BorderStyle property of the form is set to 0-None. The Form displays a border even when the Menus it contains are not visible.

CAUSE

Visual Basic requires a Form with a Menu to have visible borders.

RESOLUTION

Create a second Form to contain your popup menu and use the PopupMenu method in the first Form to access the Menu of the second Form.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

This section provides instructions on how to create a borderless Form with a popup menu.

Step-by-Step Example

1. Start a new in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.

2. Set the Form1 BorderStyle property to 0-None.

3. Copy the following code to the Code window of Form1:

         Option Explicit
   

         Private Sub Form_Load()
            Form2.Visible = False
         End Sub
   
         Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, _
                                    Shift As Integer, _
                                    X As Single, _
                                    Y As Single)
   
            If Button = vbRightButton Then
               Form1.PopupMenu Form2.mnuMyMenu
            End If
         End Sub
   
   

4. Add a second Form to the project.

5. Use the menu editor to add a menu with three menu items to the second form. Name the menu mnuMyMenu.

6. Press the F5 key to run the program. The first form displays without a border. Right-click the form to display the menu items from the second form.

REFERENCES

PopupMenu method topic in the Online Help

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1997, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Arsenio Locsin, Microsoft Corporation

Keywords          : VB4ALL VB4WIN vb5all VBKBMenu VBKBPopup
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb