BUG: Label Set to Autosize Is Not Wide Enough

• Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

When the Autosize property of a label control is set to True, the right- most character may not be entirely visible.

RESOLUTION

To work around the problem, you can either size labels manually, or, if you are using the Autosize property to compensate for a changing label caption at run-time, add code to the Change event of the label to resize it after the Caption property is changed, as follows:

   Private Sub Label1_Change()
      Label1.Width = Label1.Width + 50
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Open a new Windows CE project in Visual Basic 5.0. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add a label to Form1.

3. Change the Caption property of the label to "Can you see me?"

4. Set the Autosize property of the label to True.

5. Press the F5 key to run the project and note that approximately half of the question mark is visible.

Keywords          : vb5all vbce
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending