FIX: Animation Control Prints Incorrectly at Design-Time

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

SYMPTOMS

Random black bands and other distortions appear when printing a form image containing an Animation control. Only the Animation control is affected, the rest of the form image should print correctly.

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

The Animation control is part of the Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 5.0 (comct232.ocx).

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new Visual Basic Standard EXE project.



2. Select Project->Components from the menu.



3. Select Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 5.0 (comct232.ocx) and click OK.



4. Add an Animation control from the Toolbox to Form1.



5. Select File->Print from the menu.



6. Deselect the "Code" option and select the "Form Image" option.



7. Click on the OK button. The result will be a form image with a distorted Animation control on it.

Additional query words:

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