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BUG: Sheridan Frame and Panel Stretch Font with Move Method

Article ID: 150202

Article Last Modified on 7/14/2004

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q150202

SYMPTOMS

If the Move method is invoked on a Sheridan Frame or Panel control, the font is stretched if the size of the control is modified by the Move method.

RESOLUTION

Since this behavior does not occur with the Microsoft Frame control, use it instead of the Sheridan Frame control.
Instead of using the Move method to resize the control, the width and height of the control can be adjusted directly. For example, the following code makes the Frame the same height and width as the form, and places its upper left hand corner to the upper left hand corner of the form:
```
      SSFrame1.Move 0, 0, Form1.ScaleWidth, Form1.ScaleHeight
						
```

Replace the line of code above with:

      SSFrame1.Width = Form1.ScaleWidth

      SSFrame1.Height = Form1.ScaleHeight

      SSFrame1.Left = Form1.ScaleLeft

      SSFrame1.Top = Form1.ScaleTop

This code will not stretch the Caption of the control.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

Start a new project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
Place a Sheridan Frame control on Form1. If the Sheridan controls are not visible in the Toolbox, from the Tools menu, select Custom Controls, and then select Sheridan 3D Controls. In the Form_Click event, place the following code:
```
      Private Sub Form_Click()
      SSFrame1.Move 0, 0, Form1.ScaleWidth, Form1.ScaleHeight

      End Sub
						
```
Run the project by pressing the F5 key. Click on the Form, and notice that the Font for the caption of the frame control is stretched.

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