BUG:Sheridan Panel Receives Focus & Active Control Loses Focus

 Last reviewed: April 30, 1996
Article ID: Q150226
The information in this article applies to:
  • Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

In the 16-bit edition of Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, clicking on a Sheridan Panel causes the panel to receive the focus while causing the active control on the panel to lose the focus. Users are unable to send any input to the Panel control, and the control lacks a GotFocus or LostFocus event.

STATUS

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

WORKAROUND

In the Click event of the panel, place the following lines of code: 

   Private Sub SSPanel1_Click()
      SendKeys "{TAB}"
      Beep
   End Sub
When the user clicks or double-clicks the frame control, the focus is restored to the control that had the focus previously. However, the user is unable to use keystrokes to tab to the frame control.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

  1. Start a new project in the 16-bit edition of Visual Basic 4.0. Form1 is created by default.

  2. Place a Sheridan Panel control on Form1.

  3. Place a Text box on the Sheridan panel.

  4. Press F5 to run the project and click on the Sheridan panel. The Text box loses the focus.

To correct this problem, place the code from the Workaround section above into the Click event of the Sheridan panel control.

Additional reference words: 4.00 vb4win vb416 buglist4.00
KBCategory: kbprg kbbuglist
KBSubcategory: PrgCtrlsCus



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Last reviewed: April 30, 1996
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