FIX: Animated Button Custom Control: Caption May Be Truncated

The Caption property of the Animated Button custom control allows up to 255 characters to be entered, but only displays a varying number of those characters. The number of characters displayed depends on the FontSize and the width of the characters. The larger the font, or the wider the characters, the less the number of characters that will appear in the caption.

To work around the problem, make the font for the caption as small as feasible, and whenever possible, use the smallest size of characters.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Animated Button custom control provided with the products listed above. This problem was corrected in Animated Button custom control provided with Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0 for Windows.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.
2. From the File menu, choose Add File. In the Files box, select the ANIBUTTON.VBX custom control file. The Animated Button tool will appear in the toolbox.
3. Place an Animated Button control on Form1.
4. From the Properties list box, select the Caption property for the Animated Button control. Enter 255 W characters. Notice that the caption of the Animated Button control is now filled with W characters.
5. Maximize Form1 by clicking the maximize button in the upper-right corner of Form1.
6. Stretch the right side of the Animated Button control so that you can see the whole caption. (To do this, click the control, and pull the handle on the right side of the control.)

If you change the W characters to I characters, you will be able see more of the characters in the caption before they are truncated because I characters takes proportionately less space than W characters.