PRB: Form With Menu Displays Border With Borderstyle Set to None
Article ID: 174214
Article Last Modified on 6/24/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
- 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 Q174214
SYMPTOMS
A Form with a menu displays a border and a titlebar when the BorderStyle
property of the form is set to 0-None. The Form displays a border even when
the Menus it contains are not visible.
CAUSE
Visual Basic requires a Form with a Menu to have visible borders.
RESOLUTION
Create a second Form to contain your popup menu and use the PopupMenu
method in the first Form to access the Menu of the second Form.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
REFERENCES
PopupMenu method topic in the Online Help
(c) Microsoft Corporation 1997, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by
Arsenio Locsin, Microsoft Corporation
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