BUG: SetupKit: Fuzzy Title Display in Setup Program

- Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for

  Windows, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

The title on the background of the SETUP1.EXE is displayed incorrectly.

CAUSE

The ShowMainForm subroutine in SETUP1.FRM of the SETUP1.MAK project incorrectly displays the form and prints a title on the background of the form before it changes the scalemode of the form. Therefore, when the form is refreshed again, the Print statement prints in a slightly different location, giving the "fuzzy" look.

WORKAROUND

To work around the problem, rearrange the order of displaying the form and changing the scalemode of the form by using these steps:

1. Start Visual Basic and open the SETUP1.MAK project located in the \VB\SETUPKIT\SETUP1 directory (ALT, F, O).

2. View the code in the SETUP1.FRM form, and go to the ShowMainForm subroutine.

3. The incorrect code should read as follows:

      Sub ShowMainForm (Caption$)
         Screen.MousePointer = 11
         Setup1.Caption = Caption$
         Setup1.Move 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height * .85
         Setup1.Show
         Setup1.Refresh
   
         Setup1.ScaleMode = 2
         Setup1.FontSize = 24
         Setup1.FontBold = True
         Setup1.FontItalic = True
   
         DrawBackground
      End Sub
   
      To correct the problem, move the Setup1.Show and Setup1.Refresh
      statements to the end of the subroutine. Also, delete the call to
      DrawBackground. The corrected code should read:
   
      Sub ShowMainForm (Caption$)
         Screen.MousePointer = 11
         Setup1.Caption = Caption$
         Setup1.Move 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height * .85
   
         Setup1.ScaleMode = 2
         Setup1.FontSize = 24
         Setup1.FontBold = True
         Setup1.FontItalic = True
   
         Setup1.Show
         Setup1.Refresh
      End Sub
   
   

4. From the File menu, choose Save File to save the changes to the Form. Because the SetupWizard uses the project SETUP1.MAK as its template when creating your distribution diskettes, the change will correct problems for any new setup diskettes.

5. Press the F5 key to run the program. You should see a clear display of "Loan Application Setup" on the background of the form. Click Exit Setup to exit out of the application.

STATUS

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