BUG: PictureBox Loses Graphics Printing from Win95 with 16-Bit

ID: Q149329

The information in this article applies to:

Standard, Professional and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Graphics drawn on a picture box with the graphics methods do not appear when the form containing that picture box is printed using the PrintForm method. Bitmaps and/or icons print correctly. The AutoRedraw property has no affect on this problem.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (and use the procedures detailed in that article):

   ARTICLE-ID: Q141933
   TITLE     : How to Capture & Print the Screen, a Form, or any Window in
               VB

Alternatively, the problem may also be avoided by setting AutoRedraw to true before any drawing occurs on the picturebox to be printed. Before printing, set the Image property of the Picture box to the Picture property. This can be accomplished with a line of code similar to:

   Picture1.Picture = Picture1.Image

After these steps the graphics drawn on the picture box will print correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start Visual Basic 4.0. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add a single PictureBox control and a two command buttons to the form.

3. Add this code to Form1:

      Private Sub Command1_Click()
         Picture1.Line (10, 10)-(500, 500)
         Picture1.Line (10, 500)-(500, 10)
      End Sub

      Private Sub Command2_Click()
         Form1.PrintForm
      End Sub

4. Press F5 or select Start from the Run menu to run the application. Click

   Command1 to add the graphics to the picture box, then click Command2 to
   print the form. After printing is complete, notice that the picture box
   on the printed page is empty.

Additional reference words: kbVBp400bug kbPrint kbVBp kbDSupport kbdsd

Version           : 4.00
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: August 24, 1998