Borders

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I want to get rid of the thin borders. But of course the form then looks
silly. Setting the special effect to "raised" doesn't do anything at all
either. Does anyone have any good tricks for making the form look good
without an Access border?
 
Kiwi,

You could try a couple of options that I have used in the
past:

1) You create a form with no borders and create one
rectangle around the whole form with a raised border and
then a smaller reset border in from the outside. It then
looks like a frame.

2) Load an image (rectangular frame-like border) into a
image container through code using the LoadPicture
function. I have used CorelDraw to create the border.

3) If you are really adventurous you could create an
irregularly shaped form with API calls like
CreateEllipticRgn, CreatePolygonRgn, CreateRectRgn, and
CombineRgn and then load a image border the same shape. I
did this for a client of their corporate logo and they
loved it. It takes time and a lot of effort but it is
worth it in the end.

I hope that this has given you a starter for some
different effects.

Alastair MacFarlane
 
Place a rectangle on the form, a few millimetres in from the edge. 'Etched'
style works well.

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