FIX: Setting SelAlignment Property Does Not Affect RichTextBox
Article ID: 171480
Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q171480
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Visual Basic version 5.0, setting the SelAlignment property
for a RichTextBox control may appear to have no effect. When you set the
SelAlignment property, the RichTextBox control is not affected unless its
RightMargin property is set to a non-zero value.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio
97 Service Pack 2.
For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the
following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
170365
: INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual
Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
171554
: INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2
Additional query words: rtf rich text box textbox left right align
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvbp500sp2fix kbvs97sp2fix KB171480