Flickering Tab Control page

[lj]

Has anyone else noticed that when you place an unattached label on a tab
control page, it flickers when the mouse passes over it? What would cause
that? And can it be fixed?

lj

 

[Ken Snell]

No, that is not normal behavior.

Do you have some MouseOver event code running on the tab control or on the
label?

 

[Allen Browne]

This happens only when you use the Windows XP theme?

Workaround: convert the unattached labels to text boxes, and place the
caption text into the Control Source, e.g.:
="caption text here"

 

[lj]

No, no mouseover events...

And while I was waiting for this message to post, I scrolled down and found
another posting that cites this as a now-known bug in Access 2003. The
workaround is time-consuming... but it does work. Though I was wondering if
some sort of a function and array would work, too?

Thanks for answering so quickly, though.

lj

 

[Allen Browne]

lj, see:
Flicker with tab controls
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-46.html

The article contains the code to search through all the forms in your
application, locate any unattached labels sitting on the page of a tab
control, and convert them into text boxes with the same look as your labels.

You can run the code for a specific form, and confirm before changes are
made. However, if you use the FixAllForms() function, please back up first!
This is fresh, untested code that makes wide-ranging changes without asking
for confirmation.

 

[lj]

Thank you for the workaround... I made a crude function with a Select Case
block to insert the string phrases I needed (some were repeats from page to
page) but for the next .mdb with this issue I will use your function.

You can't get this kind of help from a book... thanks again.
lj