Customers who are using Acess 2003 seem to have what I call a goofy display of Tab Controls on forms. At a specific PC you can create a tab control on a form and set the properties to Transparent but the tab stays white while the form is another color. When I take control of the application through a VPN connection and view this specific form over the internet the tab appears transparent and the form color is visible in the tab control.
When I use my own PC running Win XP to create a form in Access 2003, the tab control on the form is transparent. When I then copy the mdb that stores this form onto my customer's machine, or import the form to an mdb on the customer machine the tab control is white even though the property is set to transparent. When I copy the mdb from my customer's PC with the misbehaving form and tab control to my PC and view the form, the tab control appears transparent. :confused:
Is there a setting on the actual screen display that is causing this problem or am I missing another property on the form and/or tab control? This working on some but not all PC's is annoying. :mad:
I have some tab controls, which for some reason show up white. I have set their back style to transparent but it doesn't seem to show the grey Windows colour of the background form. Any ideas why ?
AT the moment I'm having to put grey rectangles in various places to cover this up, which is obviously not ideal.
I have a text box control in a form that is bound to a table field. The field is of numeric format that stores time duration in minutes. I would like to apply sort of transparent / automated conversion. It would work so follows:
- when someone read records, the text box would convert a integer number stored in the filed into text so that the text box would show the time duration in this form "HH:MM" - when someone clicks on the text box to change the value, one would input the value in this form again "HH:MM" but the text would be converted to minutes and then stored in the database.
Does the background color on subforms can be changed to transparent?I have a form which contains 4 subforms. The main form has a picture that likes up with the 4 subforms, but when i go to make the sub form background color transparent it is greyed out.
I have a report, and the "reason" field is one that can grow as needed. The following string is in the field: "MISSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, MISSING SERVICE LOGS FOR DATE OF SERVICE". I bolded MISSING, where the space hits the border. My standard setting for the border style is Transparent, and the space is causing the growing to not work properly. TransparentBorder.pdf shows the incorrect growing. When I change the border style to Solid, the growing works correctly, as shown in the SolidBorder.pdf file.why the growing is not working properly with the Transparent border, but does work correctly with the Solid border?
I added a new field to one of my tables and query, but when I try to add a control for that field into my form it is not recognising it and the field isn't appearing in the sources for the form, even though the table is sourced to the form? Or am I going to have to do the usual and redo the entire form because I made a minor adjustment?
I have a form with a tab control, inside the tab control I placed an ActiveX control (Microsoft Web Browser). These are at the bottom of the form.
Everything displays fine if the entire form fit on the screen but if the form is too long and I scroll down the browser control is getting obscured by the tab control and getting chopped off (the contents are covered). It is as if the browser control is staying in space where it was and moving behind the tab control as I scroll.
This problem does not occur if I place the browser control directly on the form. Also I note that the browser control is sitting correctly within the tab control.
I have been through all the settings and properties of both controls and haven't been able to fix it. I searched all over the web but no one has previously stumbled across this one by the look of it.
I have table that I had to add a new field to which we update with a form. I tried to add a control for the new field but the field does not show up in the list for the control source. I am trying to add a list box to the form with a blank and 5 options.
I have attached screen shots of the table design and the form. The table has the field in datasheet view and I have manually entered a few entries in it but it still will not show in the control source for the form control. The top section of the form is where we enter and select the data for the new records. The bottom section (circled in red) autofills the matching record, from separate tables, for updating with the new entries.
I have added form controls for modified fields in the past so I am confused about why this is happening.
OK. I have searched and searched and every thread dances around similar situations but none seem to address this particular one. I am trying to make a control on a sub form visible/not visible depending on the condition of a control on a main form. The catch is that the control I'm trying to change the state of is on a subform located in a tab control. I've tried a thousand combinations and none seem to work. How do I reference the control on the subform in a tab control?
Main Form: frmMemberMain Tab Control: TabCtl12 Tab Control Page: 2 Subform: frmChildren Control on subform: txtRelationship
Can someone please help before my brain explodes!! Thanks! :eek:
I have reviewed the posts for 'Control Validation' and dowloaded the sample database kindly posted by ansentry.
In the PaymentAmount example, a name has to be entered in the first control before an amount is enterered in the second control. If the controls and tab order are reversed, the validation doesn't work.
I have a form where the 1st Control needs validating before moving on. The code below doesn't work.
Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer) If IsNull(Me.Employee_No) Then MsgBox "Employee No Required", vbCritical, "Data required " Cancel = True Me.Employee_No.SetFocus Exit Sub End If
I have used a tab control to create some forms. However, I can't modify or delete any of the information. It's seems like the forms are just read-only.
How can I change it so that I can modify and delete info please?
I am creating a DB using tab controls, I have my information in each tab section. When I come to view in Form View and move my mouse around the tab page it shudders for some reason? anyone know why and how i can fix it?? Thanks:confused:
I would like to be able to add a tabbed control to one of the pages of a tab control. I have made several attempts and it hasn't worked. There is no reference to it in MS help. I have seen many databases with this facility (not necessarily MS Access). Can anybody offer a suggestion please.
I usually use wizard for creating forms only now I need to have tabs for quite a few forms.
I've recently discovered that you cant simply put your labels and field on a page then select another tab and put other labels and fields on. I've tried looking frmSampl provided by microsoft put cannot figure out hows the single form with tab control on it works.
Can anyone direct me to online help with forms or provide any help with the tab control tool?
I want a Command Button on a form to move to the next Command Button. I basically want to do the same thing as the Tab button on my keyboard. However, I do not want to use the keyboard.
We have just been upgraded to '03 and while poking around noticed that the tab control changed a little. The main diff was the active tab is slightly easier to pick up because of the highlight line (See attachment). Does anyone know of any other changes in the newer version in the tab control or any other control?
This seems like it would be easy enough, but I can't seem to find an answer. I'd like to put a tab control on one page of a main tab control. I've tried to select the page and create a new tab control and cut and paste existing tab control, but in both cases the tab control pastes into the detail section of the form (where my main tab control is) and thus appears on all pages. Anyone know what I need to do? Thanks for any help.
I have added tab controls to my already created form. My original page sits there alone, not on a tab control. How do I put it on a tab control without having to re do everything??? I tried to put it on a tab/page and it lost all the lable names and changed it to numbers.
A simple question. I have tried to add Tab Control(s) in another tab control but those added tab control added in one particular tab control are shows on all tab controls in the same forms. Is it MS Acess limitation or I just don't get it done correctly?
i have a simple freeware ftp control i use on my machine at work. i need to distribute an app with ftp capabilities, though, and don't want to go to 50+ machines and put this .ocx on them all. my IT department may frown on that also. so....was wondering if anyone knew if there is any ftp support with microsoft .dll's or .ocx's. basically i need something i could reasonably expect any user to have readily available on their machines already.
If this issue had been addressed before, please direct me to the thread; otherwise please help.
I've created several TABS on a form. Each tab contains several drop down lists. I've also put a field above the tabs for displaying the choices that I make on the various tabs, BUT I can't get the choices to display in the field above the tabs.
Just wanted a little help please. I have about 100 option boxes on a form and I want to be able to change the names of the option box and its label. I want to name them from 1 to 100 sequentially. (i.e. option1, option2 ...).
When I create the controls it automatically names them option0, option2 etc. and label3, label5 etc.
I was going to change them via some code but I don’t know how to refer to a control in a form from design view.
When the application starts up I need to control the user of the system, I will have to accounts which I will define one will act as an admin and the second will act as a user the differences is that the user acts is “read only” cannot add, delete and edit.
I would appreciate your comments and ideas regarding this part?
I am not even totally sure that is what you call it. . but I have most of my experience in VB.NET and this VBA in Access 2002 is killin me. HA. . .
I am trying to dynamically create checkboxes (50 of them) in 10 rows and 5 columns. This is part of a "im bored" project and would like to be able to tackle the dynamic controls area.
I am thinking I want to keep the naming convention as "chkBox01. . .02. . .03" so that I can use the mid() function to determine its "value" and apply the value in the proper place.
I suppose the only thing I need is an example if anyone has one of a checkbox or any control for that matter being made by VBA and not placed on the form manually. 50 check boxes suck when trying to rename them all. sigh
