FIX: Controls in Frame Shifted Down When Form Has Menu

ID: Q185218

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In a Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0 (VBCE) project, when a form has a menu, controls placed within a frame on that form are shifted down within the frame at run time.


RESOLUTION

Avoid using menus and frames on the same form. If a frame is desired for visual appearance only, use lines to simulate a frame.


STATUS

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

This problem was corrected in Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.00.


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a new VBCE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.


  2. On Form1 add a Frame (Frame1) in the middle of the Form. In Frame1, add a TextBox or a CommandButton.


  3. Add a TextBox or a CommandButton to Form1 outside of Frame1, but at the same horizontal position as the control within the Frame.


  4. Run the project in emulation; notice that the control within Frame1 remains at the same horizontal position as the control outside Frame1.


  5. Add a simple menu to Form1 by using the Menu Editor on the Tools menu.


  6. Run the project in emulation again. Notice that the control within Frame1 is shifted down from its original position, although Frame1 itself remains in its designed position.


NOTE: Although the controls in the Frame are shifted down visually on the Form, their Top properties remain the same values set at design-time.


REFERENCES

Books Online for Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0

Additional query words: gap pushed moved vbce vbce5 vbce6 


Keywords          : kbToolkit kbVBp kbVBp500bug kbVBp600fix kbWinCE kbWinCE100 kbGrpVB 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: February 24, 1999