FIX: Causing a ListView Control to Paint Causes an IPF

• Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When using a ListView control that has the Sorted property set to True, if any code is executed that results in a refresh or Paint of the ListView control, the following message will be displayed:

   “<application> caused an invalid page fault in module COMCTL32.OCX at
   0137:202c0ace”

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where,and Why

   ARTICLE-ID: Q171554
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97
               Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new Standard EXE project.

2. Insert a ListView control onto Form1.

3. Add the following code to Form1:

         Private Sub Form_Click()
            ListView1.Sorted = True
            ListView1.ListItems.Add Text:="L"
            ListView1.ListItems.Add Text:="S"
            ListView1.ListItems.Add Text:="A"
            ListView1.ListItems.Add Text:="$"
            For Each x In ListView1.ListItems
               MsgBox x.Text
            Next x
         End Sub
   
   

4. Run the application by pressing the F5 key.

5. Click on the Form.

   NOTE: This problem does not occur if the Sorted property is set to False.