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Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX

From	-mhd <not_real@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX
Date	2012-09-13 12:12 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<m60458lu1n994e2dkflrdk6ovicj2kj05o@4ax.com> (permalink)
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"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote:

>Both the API method and the common dialog method work under Win7 here, but 
>that's when using them in a standard VB6 project and not as an addin for 
>Outlook. Have you tried creating a simple quick stand alone VB project which 
>does nothing other than pop up the font dialog (perhaps using the API 
>method) and which has no error checking and send it to your own users who 
>have the problem and ask them to run it for you as a simple test. At least 
>then you'll have an idea as to whether it is an Outlook problem or not.
>Mike

I have finally got the results back from a single tester to whom I sent the same
project modified to run outside of Outlook. This is with using the API and not
the common dialog control.

The font dialog pops just fine. Running inside Outlook it just gives a brief
flash/flicker.

I cannot Google any reference to Outlook 2010 causing this behavior to com
addins.

It only happens to a few users (that bother to tell me - maybe they just move on
to another product) and I cannot replicate the behavior on my PC. Other than
knowing it happens only with Outlook 2010 32bit running on Win 7 32 or 64 bit.

-mike

Thread

Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-02 16:34 -0400
  Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "CoderX" <coder@x.com> - 2012-09-02 19:00 -0400
    Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-02 20:16 -0400
      Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "Eduardo" <mm@mm.com> - 2012-09-03 08:44 -0300
        Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-04 21:00 -0400
          Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-09-05 14:29 -0700
            Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-05 18:41 -0400
              Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-09-05 16:15 -0700
                Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-05 21:33 -0400
  Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-09-03 08:50 -0400
    Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-04 20:50 -0400
      Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-09-04 22:29 -0400
        Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-05 00:02 -0400
  Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-09-05 11:05 +0100
    Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-09-05 14:24 -0700
    Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-05 18:36 -0400
    Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-13 12:12 -0400
      Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-09-13 14:50 -0400
        Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX justineclin@gmail.com - 2015-01-08 14:22 -0800
          Re: Strange Win 7 behavior using ComDlg32.OCX "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2015-01-08 18:20 -0500

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