Changes to a dialog wont appear when i run it in Visual Basic using VB Editor 6.0

Question

hi guys, I have this huge VB project which i just got from some one. i want to add a check box to a dialog in it so i opened Main2.frm and added a check box using ide. but now when i run the application the dialog resized to its orignal size hence not showing the new check box which is at the bottom. I know that this means somewhere in the code there might be something resizing the dialog box but i have scaned the code and found nothing. where the dialog is being created this is being done:

Main2.vsCodeOptions.Left = 10 Main2.vsCodeOptions.Top = 0

Main2.Move main.Left + (main.Width - Main2.Width) \ 2, main.Top + (main.Height - Main2.Height) \ 2, 3900, 5010
Main2.VSImport.Visible = False
Main2.VSAlload.Visible = False
Main2.VsrepPrt.Visible = False
Main2.VSAbout.Visible = False
Main2.vsCodeOptions.Visible = True

Main2.Left = main.Left + (main.Width - Main2.Width) \ 2
Main2.Top = main.Top + (main.Height - Main2.Height) \ 2
'Use this code to make the form stay on top in the form module:
SetWindowPos Main2.hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, Main2.Left, Main2.Top, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_NOSIZE

one more thing i am new to VB and VB editor. i want to all controls in a dialog to move collectively, one method is to select them one by one but i want to select all and then move them to make room for new dialog –

thanks

Answer 1

The first line of your code snippet - doesn't it set the size of Main2? To 3900 x 5010? And then a few lines later you move the form again (to exactly where it is) for no good reason.

I'm a little thrown off by all the \ - should they be / ? Did you type this or paste this?

Answer 2

Try to make the position of the control relative to the Top and Left properties of the form. This way it will always be at the same position no matter what the size of the form is.