FIX: Memory Leak When Setting the ForeColor of VB5 Object

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

SYMPTOMS

Setting the ForeColor property of an object (such as a form or a PictureBox) at design-time to a color other than a system-defined color (a color that starts with &h8), causes memory leak in the GDI resources when the object is shown or hidden. This problem does not occur if the property is set during run-time.

RESOLUTION

The workaround for this bug is to obtain Visual Basic 5.0 Service Pack 2 or leave/set the initial ForeColor property for the object to a system-defined color at design-time and set the desired ForeColor of the object at run- time. For example, the ForeColor property could be set to the desired color in the Form_Load event.

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

Additional query words:

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