BUG: Startup Position Changes in SDI if Form Has a Menu

 Last reviewed: November 25, 1997
Article ID: Q177089
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

If you are running Visual Basic 5.0 in SDI Development Environment mode and have a form with a menu, the form's StartupPosition will be changed to "0- Manual" when the form is run. This problem occurs only if the form has a menu.

CAUSE

Menus are added to the form at run-time, which causes a form resize event to occur. The resize event erroneously causes the StartupPosition to change.

RESOLUTION

The only resolution available at this time is to not run Visual Basic in SDI mode.

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Click Options on the Tools menu and check "SDI Development Environment" on the Advanced tab.

  2. Restart Visual Basic and create a Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.

  3. Set the StartupPosition property of Form1 to 2-Center Screen.

  4. Press F5 to run the project.

  5. End the project, and note that the StartupPosition property of the form is still set to 2-Center Screen.

  6. Use the menu editor to add a menu to the form.

  7. Note that the StartupPosition property changes to 0-Manual.

  8. Change the StartupPosition property to 2-Center Screen.

  9. Run the project, then end the project.

  10. Note that the StartupPosition again changes to 0-Manual.

  11. If desired, remove the menu and repeat steps 8-10. Note that this 

        problem with the StartupPosition property changing does not occur on a
menu-less form. 
Keywords          : vb5all VBKBEnv VBKBVB
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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Last reviewed: November 25, 1997
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