DOCUMENT:Q192648  14-SEP-1998  [vbwin]
TITLE   :BUG: Frame Disappears with Transparent Windowless Control
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:6.0
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
   for Windows, version 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
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When adding a transparent, windowless UserControl to a standard Frame
control in Visual Basic 6.0, the border and caption of the Frame control
may disappear in both the IDE and at run-time.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Create a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add a new UserControl from the Project menu. Set the BackStyle property
   to Transparent and the Windowless property to True.

3. Place a Shape control on the UserControl, then add the following code
   to the UserControl's code window:

      Private Sub UserControl_Initialize()
         Shape1.BackStyle = 1 'Opaque
         Shape1.Shape = 2 'Oval
      End Sub

      Private Sub UserControl_Resize()
         Shape1.Move 0, 0, UserControl.Width, UserControl.Height
      End Sub

4. Close the UserControl designer.

5. Add a Frame control to Form1.

6. Add your UserControl to Frame1.

7. Press the F5 key to run the program and note that the border and
   caption of the frame control disappear.

REFERENCES
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For additional information, please see the following articles in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q188234
   TITLE     : PRB: Cannot Move Windowless Controls on Form

   ARTICLE-ID: Q188544
   TITLE     : BUG: Transparent Windowless UserControl Cannot Be Dragged

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbDSD kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbCtrlCreate
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Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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