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White borders appear around areas of the screen and dialogue boxes

Description:

The program looks untidy because elements of the screen which are supposed to be grey are appearing white.

This is how it looks when it's incorrect:


This is how it should look:

Analysis:

This occurs because you have an old copy of the file THREED.VBX on your system. There are two versions of this file; 3.0.0.6 and 3.0.1.0. The most recent version, 3.0.1.0 correctly displays the grey colour, while the old version displays white instead of grey. The old version of THREED.VBX was shipped with some copies of our product, and although it does not prevent the program from running, it does make certain parts of the program look untidy.

Solution:

Download the 3.0.1.0 version of THREED.VBX and replace the version which you currently have on your computer.

Step 1: Download the Component
Click here to download the component THREED.VBX (63k). When you are prompted, select "Save to disk" from the box which appears and save the file to a temporary location on your hard disc.

Step 2: Replace your existing file(s)
Windows 3.1 or 3.11
• Use File Manager to copy the new THREED.VBX into your Windows \ SYSTEM directory
• Restart the computer

Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and later
• Choose Start - Find - Files or Folders)
• Enter THREED.VBX into the 'Named' box
• Click 'Find now' to start the search
• The program will search your system and list all copies of THREED.VBX which it finds
• Use Explorer to replace all the listed copies of THREED.VBX with the new THREED.VBX
• Restart the computer


Note: If Windows reports that the existing THREED.VBX cannot be deleted because it is in use, you must restart your computer and then try to replace the old copies with the new one. If Windows still reports that the file is in use, you must do the file replacing through DOS