Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Thu Aug 2 23:20:51 CDT 2007
So in A2K7 you can set the color of a tab control? Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:32 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tab Control Color Rocky ...the tab control color in pre A2k7 is set by one of the more obscure windows system colors ...A2k7 gives you more say over the control colors ...I have a utility I cobbled together that lets me set all the app/control colors in A2k3 but its not ready for release as yet ...but if you want to do something quick and dirty FMS still has an old A97 freebie control color setting tool on their website that is specific to version 8 ...however their source code is easily modified to work in version 11 and may provide you better compatibility between 11 and 12 re control colors. ...if anyone is interested most of the other FMS A97 freebies can be updated easily as well, I've used their old text formatting control in A2k3 in a few instances with good results. William Hindman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: [AccessD] Tab Control Color > Dear List: > > When I display a form with a tab control on it in A2003, it has a sort of > taupe color. But when my client displays it on his machine using A2007, > the > tab is the same color as the back color of the form - kind of like the tab > control was transparent. > > Bug? Any fix? > > MTIA > > Rocky > > > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/933 - Release Date: 8/2/2007 2:22 PM