FIX: ListView in PictureBox on Tabbed Dialog Disappears

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

A ListView control that is displayed in a PictureBox on a Tabbed Dialog Control is not repainted after the SetFocus method has been called.

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:

Q170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

Q171554 INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new "Standard EXE" project in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0.



2. Click Components on the Project menu and check "Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 5.0" (TABCTL32.OCX) and "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 5.0" (COMCTL32.OCX).



3. Add an SSTab control to Form1.



4. Add a PictureBox control to the second Tab of SSTab1.



5. Place a ListView control inside the PictureBox control.



6. Add a ListView control to the third Tab of SSTab1.



7. Add the following code to Form1:

   
         Private Sub SSTab1_Click(PreviousTab As Integer)
            Select Case SSTab1.Tab
            Case 1
               ListView1.SetFocus
            Case 2
               ListView2.SetFocus
            End Select
         End Sub 




8. Run the project.



9. Click Tab2. Note that the ListView control on the second Tab is not visible.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVBp500 kbVS97sp2fix kbGrpVB kbvbp500sp2fix
Version : 5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug