BUG: Text Is Aligned Too Far Left and Up in TextBox (180437)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0

This article was previously published under Q180437

SYMPTOMS

Text is aligned too close to the upper-left edge of a TextBox control if the TextBox Appearance property is set to "1 - 3D." When the TextBox receives the focus, the cursor overwrites the upper-left TextBox border, leaving a white space when the TextBox loses focus.

NOTE: This occurs only in the emulation environment and not on the Handheld PC device.

RESOLUTION

To avoid losing a portion of the border after the TextBox has lost focus, put the following code in the LostFocus event of the TextBox to refresh the TextBox:

Text1.Refresh

Although this does not solve the minor problem of the text being too close to the edges, it does solve the cosmetic problem caused by the cursor erasing the border.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start a new Windows CE (HPC) Project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
Add two TextBoxes to Form1 and ensure that the Appearance property of each is set to "1 - 3D."
Leave the default text in the TextBoxes.
Press the F5 key to run the project.
Tab between the two TextBoxes and note that when the cursor is in a TextBox, it covers part of the black border. After exiting the TextBox, that part of the border has been erased.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	8/24/2005
Keywords:	kbBug kbpending kbToolkit KB180437