BUG: ComboBox Scroll Event Might Not Fire

• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

Under certain circumstances (outlined below), the Scroll Event of a ComboBox may not fire.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new Windows CE HPC Project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.



2. Add a ComboBox to Form1.



3. Add the following code to Form1:
   

   
   Option Explicit
   
   Private Sub Form_Load()
       Dim x
       For x = 1 To 10
           Combo1.AddItem "item: " & x
       Next
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub Combo1_Scroll()
       Form1.Print "scroll"
   End Sub 




4. Run the project.



5. Click the first item in the ComboBox and drag the mouse (or stylus) down until the ComboBox scrolls. Note that the Scroll Event of the ComboBox does not fire.



6. Scroll through the ComboBox using the vertical scrollbar. Note that the Scroll Event fires as expected.

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wince wce

Keywords : kbToolkit kbVBp600bug kbWinCE kbWinCE100 kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug