[AccessD] Background color on a tab control

Hi Andy,

This is a database in A2K format.  The organization uses a grey and 
purple basic color combination, with some things in green.  The form is 
a student information form with grey detail section and a purple 
header.  The tab control was grey - just by being placed on the form.  
Its background is set to transparent, and in the earlier versions of 
this database that I went back to check on, the tab control is grey, 
just like the form, just as it is supposed to be.  In the newest 
version, all of a sudden, my tab control is white.  I don't know why.  
When I tried to fix it by deleting this form and importing the same form 
from an earlier version, the newly-imported form had the same problem - 
the tab control is white, not grey.  I've compacted and recompiled.  The 
tab control stays white.  Something is wrong here and I don't know what 
it is.  I've tried creating a new blank database and importing 
everything into it - that didn't help.  I'm not looking forward to 
importing objects one by one to see who is messing up my tab control, 
but it's starting to look as though I will have to.

I do the development work on my box, make a patch database with the new 
or modified objects, then import those changes into the database 
onsite.  The last time I did that, we made some further changes to the 
onsite database, which I put into a patch database to bring back to my 
own box.  It seems that the problem arose when I imported those changes 
into my database.

They are using Win2K Pro and I am using WinXP Pro.  They are using A2K 
and I am using A2K3.  The database format is A2K.  I have been able to 
update the onsite database with my patches with no problem.  Is there a 
problem I should have known about in importing patches back from their 
copy of the database?

Thanks,
Tina

Andy Lacey wrote:
> In A97 I think all tabs are light grey regardless.
>
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Tina Norris Fields
>> Sent: 14 August 2006 20:21
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Background color on a tab control
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>       
>