Disappearances

[Niniel]

Hello,

Maybe somebody can help me with this. It's not vital, but still odd, and I'd
like to fix it.
What happens is that I have a form with text/combo boxes that are used to
input parameters. For looks, those boxes are surrounded by frames which have
been coloured.
Now I just discovered that when I click inside the frame, the text fields
disappear. Strangely enough, if it's a combo box, the dropdown button will
remain visible, as will other command buttons inside the frame. Clicking
where the field should be will bring it back. And in the case of a form with
several such frames, clicking inside one of them will hide it's text fields,
but make visible again fields in other frames that were previously hidden.

Does anybody have an explanation for this, and, ideally, know a way to stop
this?

Thanks.

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hello,

Maybe somebody can help me with this. It's not vital, but still odd,
and I'd like to fix it.
What happens is that I have a form with text/combo boxes that are
used to input parameters. For looks, those boxes are surrounded by
frames which have been coloured.
Now I just discovered that when I click inside the frame, the text
fields disappear. Strangely enough, if it's a combo box, the dropdown
button will remain visible, as will other command buttons inside the
frame. Clicking where the field should be will bring it back. And in
the case of a form with several such frames, clicking inside one of
them will hide it's text fields, but make visible again fields in
other frames that were previously hidden.

Does anybody have an explanation for this, and, ideally, know a way
to stop this?

Thanks.

The object with focus always moves to the front. No way to prevent your
problem except to make the frame have a transparent background or make it so
it cannot accept the focus. Enabled = No and Locked = True should work for
that.

 

[Niniel]

That did the trick, thank you very much!