Transparent subform

[Kelly]

How do I make a subform with a transparant background?

I want the subform to be an "overlay" to the main form
where only the text boxes on the subform are visible.

The reason for this is that I have a form with many
controls. I refresh the data every 5 seconds. For some of
the values this is not often enough, so I would like to
refresh some of them every second. I pictured I could then
just put my transparent subform on top of the "5-second
values" - and then just refresh some more often.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Hum, why not just have your timer code fire every second, and then place the
controls that need to be updated in each section:

static intSecondCount as integer

intSecondCount = intSecondCount + 1

if intSecondCount < 5 then

gosub UpdateOnceSecondFields

endif

if intSecondCount >= 5 then
intSecondCount = 0
gosub UPdateOneSecondFielods
gosbu UpdateFiveSecondFeilds
end if

 

[Kelly]

Well, I thought of that too...

But I would like to refresh data just by making a requery
of the form data (instead of having to loop through all
fields).

With the fields placed on a 1-second form and a 5-second
form I can do this in a very efficient way.

Problem is - that the fields are mixed in between each
other... meaning I have 1-second fields in the middle of a
group of 5-second fields, so I cant group my fields
together. Therefore the transparency would do the trick!