Hi All,

I have 2 problems after installing manifest script from
http://www.vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/forms/vbidexp.htm

Labels located in a frame often flicker when mouse
is moving over the text boxes that sit within the same frame.

In design time, all item in the pallete color list of the properties
look white.

Could anyone solve it ?

Thanks in advance

John S



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Show quote Hide quote If you want "XP Styles", you can pretty much forget VBs frame controls. The
bottom line is....

INFO: Visual Basic 6.0 Does Not Support Windows XP Themes or Visual Styles
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309366/en-us

....if frames are the only controls you're having problems with, I have a
couple of replacements... the "4 color Gradient" (link below) is one and
here's the other (source code only).

Super Container
http://www.vbsight.com/Code.htm

I don't see frame flicker, but controls placed in a frame will look strange
unless they are placed into a picturebox first, and that is placed into the
frame. (Windows needs to be able to access the hDc of each control to render
it with XP styles, and frames don't provide for a hDc, whereas a picture box
does.)  As for the tool palette -- that is a problem that is also related,
it seems, to the hDc issue and not one I've found a solution for. The
alternative is to use the colour box accessed through View > Colour Palette.
Given loosing the colour dropdown, and seeing themed controls during design
time, I have elected to go with the latter.

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