FIX: Focus Rectangle Remains When Grid Loses Focus

The information in this article applies to:

- Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for

  Windows, version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

When a grid control loses focus, the focus rectangle surrounding the active cell incorrectly remains on the cell.

This behavior differs from that of the grid control that shipped with the Professional Toolkit for Visual Basic version 1.0. The active cell, with the focus rectangle, can be differentiated from other cells in the grid by its wider border when GridLines is set to True or by the fact that it is the only cell with a border when GridLines is set to False.

WORKAROUND

To work around the problem, change the active cell to one in a fixed row or column so that no cell has a focus rectangle. Selected cells are unaffected by changing the active cell. For example, add the following code to the LostFocus event of a grid control named grid1:

   Sub Grid1_LostFocus ()
      Grid1.Row = 0
      Grid1.Col = 0
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in both the Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic version 2.0 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0 for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Run Visual Basic, or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.

2. From the File menu, choose Add File. In the Files box, select the GRID.VBX custom control file. The grid tool appears in the Toolbox. In Visual Basic version 3.0, GRID.VBX is automatically installed.

3. Add a grid control (Grid1) to Form1 with the following properties:

   Rows: 5 Cols: 5

4. Add a text box (Text1) to Form1.

5. From the Run menu, choose Start (ALT, R, S) to run the program. Grid1 gets the focus on startup and the focus rectangle is around R1C1.

6. Tab to the text box. Focus changes from Grid1 to Text1. Even though focus changed to Text1, the focus rectangle on R1C1 on the Grid1 incorrectly remains.