BUG: PictureBox Loses Graphics Printing from Win95 with 16- Bit (149329)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Standard Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0

This article was previously published under Q149329

SYMPTOMS

Graphics drawn on a picture box with the graphics methods do not appear when the form containing that picture box is printed using the PrintForm method. Bitmaps and/or icons print correctly. The AutoRedraw property has no affect on this problem.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (and use the procedures detailed in that article):

141933 How to Capture & Print the Screen, a Form, or any Window in VB

Alternatively, the problem may also be avoided by setting AutoRedraw to true before any drawing occurs on the picturebox to be printed. Before printing, set the Image property of the Picture box to the Picture property. This can be accomplished with a line of code similar to:

Picture1.Picture = Picture1.Image

After these steps the graphics drawn on the picture box will print correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce

Start Visual Basic 4.0 and Form1 is created by default.
Add a single PictureBox control and two command buttons to the form.

Add this code to Form1:

      Private Sub Command1_Click()
         Picture1.Line (10, 10)-(500, 500)
         Picture1.Line (10, 500)-(500, 10)
      End Sub

      Private Sub Command2_Click()
         Form1.PrintForm
      End Sub

Press F5 or select Start from the Run menu to run the application. Click Command1 to add the graphics to the picture box, then click Command2 to print the form. After printing is complete, notice that the picture box on the printed page is empty.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	6/28/2004
Keywords:	kbBug kbpending kbprint KB149329