"The Referee" <stephenp.sm***@prudential.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Any help with the following will be greatly appreciated.
>
> On Windows XP Professional, a User minimises an application (that has
> been written in VB6) to allow him to work on two other applications
> (one off the shelf product and one in-house written application).
>
> After a period of time the user uses the mouse to click on the
> application on the taskbar and nothing happens.
> User then right clicks on the application on the taskbar and all of the
> popup menu items are disabled.
>
> The net result of this is that the user has to log off, reboot and log
> back on so that they can reuse the application.
>
> Does anyone know of any bugs, in VB or XP that might cause this problem
> to arise?
>

> Do you have any code in your resize event and if so post it here so we can
> see it.
>
> grant
>
> "The Referee" <stephenp.sm***@prudential.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1127394978.749836.35850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Any help with the following will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > On Windows XP Professional, a User minimises an application (that has
> > been written in VB6) to allow him to work on two other applications
> > (one off the shelf product and one in-house written application).
> >
> > After a period of time the user uses the mouse to click on the
> > application on the taskbar and nothing happens.
> > User then right clicks on the application on the taskbar and all of the
> > popup menu items are disabled.
> >
> > The net result of this is that the user has to log off, reboot and log
> > back on so that they can reuse the application.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any bugs, in VB or XP that might cause this problem
> > to arise?
> >

>>after<< testing the window state. iow, skip that entire procedure if
WindowState = Minimized.

"The Referee" <stephenp.sm***@prudential.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Grant
>
> Thanks for taking time to look at this.  code below is all of my form
> resize event.
>
> '~~~~ Standard Error Handler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    Const lstrProcName = "Form_Resize"
>    On Error GoTo ErrorTrap
> '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dim llngToolbarHeight As Long
> Dim llngStatusBarHeight As Long
>
>    ' Determine height of toolbar and status bar (depending on
> visibility)
>    If tlbMain.Visible = True Then
>        llngToolbarHeight = tlbMain.Height
>    Else
>        llngToolbarHeight = 0
>    End If
>    If staContents.Visible = True Then
>        llngStatusBarHeight = staContents.Height
>    Else
>        llngStatusBarHeight = 0
>    End If
>
>    PruSplitter1.Left = 0
>    PruSplitter1.Top = llngToolbarHeight
>    PruSplitter1.Width = IIf(Me.ScaleWidth < (pnlQueue.Height * 2),
> (pnlQueue.Height * 2), Me.ScaleWidth)
>    PruSplitter1.Height = IIf((Me.ScaleHeight - llngToolbarHeight -
> llngStatusBarHeight) < (pnlQueue.Height * 2), _
>                              (pnlQueue.Height * 2), _
>                              (Me.ScaleHeight - llngToolbarHeight -
> llngStatusBarHeight))
>
>    If Me.WindowState = vbMinimized Then
>        Me.Caption = "Queue Explorer - " & treOrgUnit.SelectedItem.Text
>    Else
>        Me.Caption = App.Title & " - Oracle"
>    End If
>
> '~~~~ Standard Error Handler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    Exit Sub
> ErrorTrap:
>    If mobjFatalError.UnhandledError(Err.Number, Me) Then
>        mobjFatalError.Raise Err.Number, Err.Description
>        ReportError mstrModule, lstrProcName, Err.Number,
> Err.Description, True
>        Unload Me
>    End If
> '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> UGH wrote:
>> Do you have any code in your resize event and if so post it here so we
>> can
>> see it.
>>
>> grant
>>
>> "The Referee" <stephenp.sm***@prudential.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1127394978.749836.35850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> > Any help with the following will be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > On Windows XP Professional, a User minimises an application (that has
>> > been written in VB6) to allow him to work on two other applications
>> > (one off the shelf product and one in-house written application).
>> >
>> > After a period of time the user uses the mouse to click on the
>> > application on the taskbar and nothing happens.
>> > User then right clicks on the application on the taskbar and all of the
>> > popup menu items are disabled.
>> >
>> > The net result of this is that the user has to log off, reboot and log
>> > back on so that they can reuse the application.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know of any bugs, in VB or XP that might cause this problem
>> > to arise?
>> >
>