FIX: Shortcut Menus Limited by Form Size, Have Up/Down Arrows

ID: Q221643

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

You have a form which allows display of a shortcut menu (this type of menu is usually displayed via right mouse click and may be referred to as a popup or context menu). If the menu height is greater than the height of the form which displays it, the menu will be limited in size to the height of the form and display scroll arrows at its top and/or bottom.


STATUS

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

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Run the following code from a program (.PRG) file:


    2. 
PUBLIC oForm
oForm = CREATEOBJECT('form1')
oForm.SHOW()

* This displays the menu with a rightclick
MOUSE CLICK AT 5,5 PIXEL WINDOW 'form11' RIGHT

* This scrolls it to display the scroll arrows
KEYBOARD '{dnarrow}{dnarrow}{dnarrow}{dnarrow}'
KEYBOARD '{dnarrow}{dnarrow}{dnarrow}'

DEFINE CLASS form1 AS FORM
   HEIGHT = 110
   PROC RIGHTCLICK
      DO showmenu
   ENDPROC
ENDDEFINE


PROC showmenu
   * The code in this procedure is similar to code generated
   * by the menu generator
   DEFINE POPUP shortcut SHORTCUT RELATIVE FROM MROW(),MCOL()
   DEFINE BAR 1 OF shortcut PROMPT "one"
   DEFINE BAR 2 OF shortcut PROMPT "two"
   DEFINE BAR 3 OF shortcut PROMPT "three"
   DEFINE BAR 4 OF shortcut PROMPT "four"
   DEFINE BAR 5 OF shortcut PROMPT "five"
   DEFINE BAR 6 OF shortcut PROMPT "six"
   DEFINE BAR 7 OF shortcut PROMPT "seven"
   DEFINE BAR 8 OF shortcut PROMPT "eight"
   DEFINE BAR 9 OF shortcut PROMPT "nine"
   DEFINE BAR 10 OF shortcut PROMPT "ten"
   DEFINE BAR 11 OF shortcut PROMPT "eleven"
   DEFINE BAR 12 OF shortcut PROMPT "twelve"

   ACTIVATE POPUP shortcut
ENDPROC
  2. The menu will appear with arrows at top and bottom of menu. Each arrow will be contained in a white box, and will not respond to mouse clicks. You may close the menu by pressing escape or clicking outside of it, and redisplay it by right-clicking on the form.



REFERENCES

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words: KBDSE 


Keywords          : kbservicepack kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 19, 1999