Tab Control causes form to flash on mouse-over

S

Sandy

Does anyone know how to prevent a form with a tab control from "flashing"
when the mouse is ran over the various controls on the form? I have several
forms that have large tab controls on them and when the user mouses over the
various controls on the form and the tab control the form literally
blinks/flashes.

Thank you in advance for your help,
 
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Allen Browne

This is a problem with Access 2003 on Windows XP.

The only real solution is to set your WinXP themes to Classic, i.e.
right-click the WIndows desktop and choose Properties.

The workaround is to change the unattached labels into text boxes that look
like labels. See:
Flicker with tab controls
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-46.html
The article contains code to search your database and replace the affected
labels with tab controls.
 
S

Sandy

Thank you Allen I will give both options a try and see what will work best
from the user's end.

Cheers,

- Sandy
 
J

Jen

Allen,

Just wanted to say thanks for this - I found this old post doing a search,
and your code worked beautifully. Thanks for posting it!

Jen
 
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