[AccessD] Puzzling Form hebaviour Access 2003

This is caused by the new "feature"  of non associated controls
When controls such as labels are 'orphaned' i.e. have no parent control
like a TextBox etc
You get this shimmer/flicker effect when your mouse moves over them
It's a real PITA
Anyway...
In design view select one of them (An unassociated controls like a
label) 
A small yellow warning icon will appear to the left or right of the
'orphaned' control 
alerting you to the fact it is an orphaned control. :-))
Click on that icon and a menu list will appear. Choose associate (if you
want) or ignore error.
That should get rid of the flicker in run time.

If you don't see these little yellow warning icons when you click on a
control in design view
Go to TOOLS|OPTIONS|ERROR CHECKING
And put a check in each of the boxes. Close and start the app again.
Then  go back into design view. You should see the Yellow warning icon I
speak of.

Hope this is the solution

See ya

Darren


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:38 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Puzzling Form hebaviour Access 2003

No mousemove event either. Sorry.

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DWUTKA at marlow.com
Sent: July 5, 2005 12:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [AccessD] Puzzling Form hebaviour Access 2003

Does the form have a MouseMove event?  I know in Access 97, a mouse move
event will cause that sort of 'effect'.

Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:19 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Puzzling Form hebaviour Access 2003


I'm working on an inherited app which contains one huge table with
numerous fields, distributed in groups across about 6 tabs. There are no
subforms -- the whole form displays just one row -- 20 controls on the
first tab page, 20 on the second, etc.

Whenever I move the mouse over the form, most or all of the controls on
the displayed tab page sort of jiggle or shimmer. They don't change
values, and it happens too quickly to think they are re-querying, but
nevertheless it is annoying. I've checked such event controls as
keydown, onCurrent etc. and nothing looks as if it's causing this
annoying behaviour. Is it possibly just because there are so many
controls?

Incidentally, I plan to normalise this table and that may make this
problem of multiple nested tables inside one go away, but in the interim
I'm wondering about this.

Any clues where to look?

TIA,
Arthur


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