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Q201509: BUG: Textbox Can Be Sized To Less Than Minimum Height

Article: Q201509
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 5.0,6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbButton kbCtrl kbVBp kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbForms kbIDEProject kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport
Last Modified: 03-MAY-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you resize a TextBox control with the mouse at design time, you can make the
height so small that some of the text is cut off.

RESOLUTION
==========

To work around this problem, try to set the Height property of the TextBox
control to a tiny value (for example, one Twip) in the Properties window. This
assigns the TextBox control to its correct minimum height value, which allows
one line of text to be visible.

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
================

The minimum height of the TextBox control should always allow at least one line
of text to be visible. At design time, a TextBox control can be resized such
that the height of one line of text within the control is not completely
visible.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Create a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by
  default.

2. In the Toolbox, double-click TextBox to add a TextBox control to Form1.

3. With the mouse, select one of the sizing handles along the bottom of the
  TextBox control, and resize the control to its minimum height.

4. With the mouse, select one of the sizing handles along the bottom of the
  TextBox control. Notice that the control can be resized to a height that is
  smaller than the minimum height that you specified in the previous step.

NOTE: If an application requires functionality that allows the height of an edit
control to be sized smaller than the height of one line of text, you can use the
Microsoft Rich Textbox Control.

Additional query words: font

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Keywords          : kbButton kbCtrl kbVBp kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbForms kbIDEProject kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport 
Technology        : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2 kbVB500Search kbVB600Search kbVBA500 kbVBA600 kbVB500 kbVB600
Version           : :5.0,6.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending

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