Flickering Tab Control page

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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
 
No, that is not normal behavior.

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