Microsoft KB Archive/823903

= FIX: Controls Lose the Caption in the Dialog Editor =

Article ID: 823903

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you add a control to a dialog in the Visual C++ resource editor and then you change the tab order, you lose the caption of the focus control. You cannot make the caption reappear.



RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that this article describes. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451

Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

  Date         Time   Version              Size  File name -- 03-Jul-2003 04:41  7.10.3184.0     2,171,904  Resedit.dll



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



Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

 * 1) Open the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE.
 * 2) Create a default Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) dialog-based project.
 * 3) Open the IDD_*_DIALOG dialog in the resource editor.
 * 4) Add a static control to the dialog.
 * 5) Change the caption of the static control by setting focus to the control and then by typing the following new text: Test . When you type the existing caption, the word &quot;static&quot; disappears, and then the text that you type appears as the caption. Note Do not change the caption in the Properties Window.
 * 6) Now set focus to another control. For example, click OK to set the focus to the OK button.
 * 7) Press CTRL+D to order the tabs. You can also set the order of the tabs when you click Format, and then click Tab Order.
 * 8) Change the tab order to any order that is different from the current setting.
 * 9) Press ESC to quit tab-ordering mode.
 * 10) The OK button caption disappears. You cannot make the caption reappear unless you retype it.

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