Bryan and Jane Fitzpatrick
bryan.fitzpatrick at cyberone.com.au
Wed Jan 4 20:18:49 CST 2006
There is no Backcolor property for a checkbox, so it can't be done directly. Two ways around it - 1. Change the backcolor of the Checkbox's Label. 2. Put a rectangle control behind the Checkbox and change the color of the rectangle. Hope this helps. Bryan William Hindman wrote: >...never found a way to do that ...but dependng upon your needs, you can use >a yes/no text box instead along with the wingdings font ...which means you >not only can set the bg color but the fg color and size it as well ...and >you can set the format property to change the bg color between -1 and 0 >values ...and in XP and above you also get conditional formatting ...its >more work of course but that's the way of most good things in Access ...hth > >William > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joe Hecht" <jmhecht at earthlink.net> >To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" ><accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:46 PM >Subject: [AccessD] Check Box Back Color > > > > >>Thanks to those who turned me on to conditional formatting. >>Excellent answer. >> >> >> >>I now need to be able to manipulate the back color of check >>boxes depending on focus. >> >> >> >>Thanks again. >> >> >> >>Joe Hecht >> >>jmhecht at earthlink.net >> >> >> >>-- >>AccessD mailing list >>AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> > > > > -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.12/220 - Release Date: 3/01/2006