INFO: VB Controls Disappear When Changing Properties (R4010100)

Summary

This article describes a situation where some ActiveX controls disappear after changing properties on the GradientBox control.

Details

Certain controls allow a transparent effect so that the background doesn't show through. Because of the way these controls work, they appear to disappear after changing properties on the GradientBox control. These controls include the following:

• Label Control
• Image Control
• Shape Control
• Line Control

Workaround

Although it appears that the controls disappear, they in fact do not. Simply call the control's Refresh property to force them to redraw themselves when necessary.

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