[AccessD] Background color on a tab control

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Mon Aug 14 14:21:13 CDT 2006


I did try that, without success.  Something seems to be wrong with this 
form - I just opened an older version of the database and found the form 
and its tab control to be the same color.  So, uh-oh, do I have a 
corrupted form here?  How would I be sure?
Tina

Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> Well the simplest thing to do would be to set the tab control's Back Style
> to Transparent. Then you will see the containing form's background through
> the tab control.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Fields
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:45 PM
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> Subject: [AccessD] Background color on a tab control
>
>
> How can one set the background color on a tab control?  I have a form 
> with a tab control with four pages that is not the same color as the 
> form's detail section.  I haven't looked at this form for a while, but 
> my recollection is that the form detail section and the tab control were 
> the same color - now they are not - and I do not find an appropriate 
> property for changing the tab control's background color.  What am I 
> missing here?
> TIA for any help,
> Tina
>   



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