Archive for November, 2005

Today I was getting a strange error in Visual Basic: “Unable to show modal form within this context” – that happened in a VB activex control method that was called by a c++ event handler of a VB fired event (so it’s clear that the context was pretty messy ). Didn’t know what to do to fix it – thus resorted to one of my usual workarounds on these issues by using a one-shot timer after 10 ms that will continue the process.

I found a weird issue with CComboBoxes that don’t have the default item height (-1) (that is the height of the control when not opened minus the border) – it appears that SetDroppedWidth resets the value to the default (15 or I guess it depends on the font).