Q262654: BUG: ShowAnnotationToolPalette ToolTips Display Incorrect Data

Article: Q262654
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 5.0,6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kb3rdparty kbVBp600bug kbVC600bug kbOSWin98bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbNoUpdate kbOSWinM
Last Modified: 13-FEB-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0, on platform(s):
   - Microsoft Windows 98 
   - Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0, on platform(s):
   - Microsoft Windows 98 
   - Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition 
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, versions 5.0, 6.0, on platform(s):
   - Microsoft Windows 98 
   - Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition 
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SYMPTOMS
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The ShowAnnotationToolPalette method of the IMGEDIT control allows you to show
the control's related Toolbox and assign ToolTip text to each visible button.
Under the versions of Microsoft Windows to which this article applies, any
ToolTip text that is longer than one character is displayed as garbage
characters, including the default ToolTips.

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 in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
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1. Start a new Visual Basic Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.

2. On the Project menu, select the Components option to open the Components
  dialog box, check Kodak Image Edit Control, and then click OK.

3. Add one ImgEdit control and one CommandButton control to Form1.

4. Add the following code to the General Declarations section of Form1:

  Private Sub Command1_Click()
        ' Show toolbox and set the ToolTip text.
        ImgEdit1.ShowAnnotationToolPalette True, 10, 10, "a|b|c|Test"
  End Sub

5. Run the project, and then click the CommandButton.

6. Move the mouse pointer over any of the first four Toolbox items and note that
  the first three items that have ToolTips of a single character correctly
  display the ToolTip text, but the fourth item, which is more than one
  character long, displays only garbage. Note that the predefined, default
  ToolTips are also garbage, even if you do not specify any new text.

This behavior can be reproduced easily in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 if you create
an instance of the ImgEdit Control Class and call the ShowAnnotationToolPalette
method while you pass similar arguments.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kb3rdparty kbVBp600bug kbVC600bug kbOSWin98bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbNoUpdate kbOSWinMEbug 
Technology        : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : :5.0,6.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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