PRB: Setting Scrollbars > 0 Changes Height and Width Property

ID: Q193749

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

The Height and/or Width properties of a form reduce in size a few pixels at a time when both the following occur:

The Scrollbars property of the form is set greater than zero.

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Any object that triggers the scrollbars to appear is moved to a different position on the form at design time.

This happens after you move the object and the form is closed and reopened.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

When you set the Scrollbars property of a form to "1 [ASCII 150] Horizontal", and you place an object on the form that displays off the right side of the visible form, scrollbars appear at the bottom of the form. If you then move the object to another position where part of the object is still off the visible area of the form, the Height property of the form decreases in value. The same behavior occurs with the Width property of a form if the Scrollbars property is set to "2 [ASCII 150] Vertical" and you move an object to another position where part of the object is off the visible area at the bottom of the form. Both the Height and Width properties reduce in size if the Scrollbars property is set to "3 [ASCII 150] Both" and you move an object to a position where part of the object is off of the bottom right corner of the visible part of the form. You must save and reopen the form to see the reduction of the properties in size each time you move an object.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

First Example

Create a form with the Form Designer and note the value of the Height property.

Change the Scrollbars property to 1.

Place a command button on the form so that part of the command button hangs off the right side of the visible part of the form.

Close the form.

Modify the form and note that the Height property value has changed. The height of the form is reduced in size because you deduct the size of the scrollbars from the height of the form.

Move the command button slightly keeping part of it off the right side of the visible form.

Close the form, modify it and note that the Height property of the form again reduces in size.

The Height property reduces in size each time you move the object, then close and reopen the form.

Second Example

Place the following code in a new program file and run the program. The program opens and closes a form (with scrollbars) after moving a command button. The Height and Width properties after each iteration display on the Visual FoxPro desktop when the program completes.


   CLEAR
   ? "Resolution is:",SYSMETRIC(1),SYSMETRIC(2)
   ? ""
   ? "        Height  and  Width."
   LOCAL aobj[1], xx

   DELETE FILE testxx.sc?
   CREATE FORM testxx NOWAIT
   =ASELOBJ(aobj,1)
   xx = aobj[1]

   ? xx.WIDTH, xx.HEIGHT
   xx.ADDOBJECT('cmd1','commandbutton')
   xx.cmd1.LEFT = 310
   xx.cmd1.TOP = 240
   xx.SCROLLBARS = 3
   KEYBOARD 'Y' CLEAR
   RELEASE WINDOW 'Form Designer'

   FOR x = 1 TO 10
         =do_and_show_dims()
         =modi_form_move_button()
   ENDFOR

    PROCEDURE do_and_show_dims()

         DO FORM testxx
           _SCREEN.SHOW
           ? testxx.WIDTH, testxx.HEIGHT
            testxx.RELEASE
    ENDPROC

     PROCEDURE modi_form_move_button

           MODI FORM testxx NOWAIT
           =ASELOBJ(aobj,1)
           xx = aobj[1]
           xx.cmd1.LEFT = xx.cmd1.LEFT + 1
           KEYBOARD 'Y' CLEAR
           RELEASE WINDOW 'Form Designer'
     ENDPROC

Additional query words: kbVFp600 kbDesigner kbContainer kbCtrl

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb