Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Tue Aug 28 07:30:12 CDT 2007
Hi Borge, In Access 2003, you have the option of using Windows Themed Controls in Tools|Options|Forms & Reports. If you check this, you get rounded corner buttons, white tab control backgrounds, etc. Perhaps your original database did not have this checked, but your new database does. I wasn't able to change the tab control color in Access 2002 either - it was always Access gray. Keep using tab controls! They are a great way to present many times the number of controls to users as you have space on the screen. I don't know about the other issues. Good luck with those. Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of pcs at azizaz.com Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:35 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving Subject: [AccessD] Tabcontrol mis-behaving Access 2003 On XP and Vista I have Form in a small app that has a Tabcontrol with 4 pages two of which are in use. On on tab page a few text controls and subform control On the other tab page an activex control (ocxWeb) Transparent Backstyle Style = None Multirow = No After a couple of days running fine on Vista it now crashes continous when trying to open the Form with the tabcontrol. On XP box works fine I Import the app from XP box to Vista box - same thing happens again - Access crashes (exception in Access.exe) when trying to open Form. I create an empty .mdb and import all objects. I Open the App and lo and behold!! the Form opens, but the background / backstyle of the Tabcontrol is now WHITE!! although setting is still set to transparent backstyle.... No way I can get rid of this unwanted white background. What is this? Should I just re-create the Form with a transparent backstyle tabcontrol - hoping this is just a one time odd behaviour - or is there something about tabcontrols that suggest that I should stay away from them??? Regards Borge -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com