FIX: Hide Event Doesn't Fire Correctly in Internet Explorer 4.0

• Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Code placed in the Hide event of a UserDocument or a UserControl does not execute under Internet Explorer 4.0. The Hide event does not fire correctly for the following:

• ActiveX DLL UserDocument with Apartment-threading



• ActiveX DLL UserDocument with Single-threading and absence of Active Desktop



• ActiveX Control OCX with Apartment-threading



• ActiveX Control OCX with Single-threading and absence of Active Desktop

CAUSE

The Hide event is not getting fired for UserControl and UserDocument objects because these objects are being released before receiving the Hide event. Internet Explorer 3.0 does not have this problem because it maintains a four-page cache. Internet Explorer 4.0 does not have a four- page cache.

RESOLUTION

Add the following code to your UserDocument or UserControl module. The self- reference will keep your object in memory long enough to receive the hide event, at which point you can free the object reference:

1. To the General/Declarations section of your code module, add:

   
        Private objMe As Object 




2. To the UserDocument_Show or UserControl_Show event, add:

   
        Set objMe = Me 




3. To the UserDocument_Hide or UserControl_Hide event, add:

   
        Set objMe = Nothing 

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 Basic 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new ActiveX DLL project.



2. From the Project properties, General, change threading model to be "Apartment Threaded."



3. Create a procedure to write debug messages to a file in your project directory. Cut and paste the following code into your UserDocument:

   
         Sub OutputDebug(iStr As String)
             Dim H As Integer
   
             H = FreeFile
             Open App.Path + "\" + App.EXEName + "_Debug.TXT" For Append As #H
             Print #H, iStr
             Close #H
         End Sub 




4. Add the following code to the Show and Hide events of your UserDocument:

   
         Private Sub UserDocument_Hide()
             OutputDebug "UserDocument_Hide"
         End Sub
   
         Private Sub UserDocument_Show()
             OutputDebug "UserDocument_Show"
         End Sub 




5. Save your project.



6. Compile the ActiveX DLL. Go into the Project Properties, Component and set Binary Compatibility to your ActiveX DLL.



7. Save your project again.



8. From Internet Explorer 4.0, navigate to .VBD file for your project. Wait for your UserDocument to display.



9. From Internet Explorer 4.0, navigate to a new location such as www.microsoft.com.



10. Exit Internet Explorer 4.0.



11. Examine the PROJNAME_debug.txt file in your project directory. Note that there is no Hide event message in the file. This indicates that the Hide event was never fired.

Additional query words: VBD Hide OCX KBiNETdEV kbVBp500bug kbIE400 kbdsi kbVBp600fix

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Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug