disappearing controls

H

HDRock

hi all,
using xp. What would make all of the controls on a form
disappear in form view. all controls - textboxes, lables
buttons, images ect. when i go to disign view they are there.
but in form view all i have is a blank form with title.
I have worked with 97 and 2k. this is my first use of xp
and i have never experianced this before.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.
hotdogrock
 
W

Wayne Morgan

The problem occurred in earlier versions also. If there are no records and
the form's Record Source isn't updatable, you'll get a blank form. Where
this becomes really puzzling is that in some cases, once a record has been
added, the recordset is apparently updateable, but with no records in the
recordset, the same thing occurs.
 
G

Guest

thank you Wayne. I thought i was going crazy. this is an
unbound form, getting some of it's data from a query. the
rest is user input and the table will be appended by
recordset. but since the table has yet to have data, it was
an empty query. i put some dummy data in the table and the
query has date. and now i have all my controls. thank you.
 
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