Microsoft KB Archive/257661

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FIX: Double-Click Event of a Form May Fire the SSTab's GotFocus and Click Events

Article ID: 257661

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q257661

SYMPTOMS

If you cover the SSTab control with a Form and double-click on that form in the area above any tab of the SSTab control, then either the GotFocus event itself or both the GotFocus and the Click events are fired.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
2. On the Project menu, choose Components.
3. Add a reference to Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 6.0.
4. Place an SSTab control and a CommandButton control on Form1.

5. Paste the following code into Form1's code window:

   Option Explicit
   
   Private Sub Command1_Click()
     Form2.Show vbModal
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub SSTab1_Click(PreviousTab As Integer)
     Debug.Print "SSTab1_Click " & PreviousTab
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub SSTab1_GotFocus()
     Debug.Print "SSTab1_GotFocus"
   End Sub
   
                       

6. From the Project menu, add a new Form. Form2 is added by default.

7. Paste the following code into Form2's code window:

   Option Explicit
   
   Private Sub Form_DblClick()
     Debug.Print "Form2 DblClick"
     Unload Me
   End Sub
                       

8. Press the F5 key to run the program.
9. On the View menu, select the Immediate window.
10. On Form1, the current tab of the SSTab1 control is Tab0.
11. Click on Command1. Form2 pops up.
12. Position Form2 so that it covers the Tab1 or Tab2 tab of the SSTab1 control.
13. Double-click on Form2 in the area above the Tab1 or Tab2 tab of the SSTab1 control.
14. Form2 unloads and you see that the current tab of the SSTab1 control has switched to Tab1 or Tab2 depending on where you clicked.
15. In the Immediate window, note that the Click and GotFocus events of the SSTab1 control are fired.

Additional query words: sp4

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbtabctrl kbvs600sp4fix kbvs600sp5fix KB257661

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