Jim Dettman
jimdettman at verizon.net
Tue Jan 3 08:29:47 CST 2012
Doug, Only thing that comes to mind is using the old trick of putting a control behind the control with a graphic and then setting the foreground control's background as transparent. The only wrinkle would be knowing that on these controls, you'd need to set the background controls background rather then the foreground's (assuming you do that on the fly - if not, then it's not a problem). Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 07:14 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Textbox special highlighting Hello all: I would like to have a consistent method of highlighting textboxes so that a user knows that double clicking will result in the display of more information. Ideally, it wouldn't involve changing the background or foreground colour, as I use these with conditional formatting for displaying other information (order quantity is greater than on-hand quantity, for instance). Changing the border colour or thickness results in some very ugly grid displays. The ability to put a little triangle in one corner of the textbox would be ideal - the way Excel does for comments. Does anyone have a brilliant solution? Thanks, Doug -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com