How do I move existing form design onto a tab page ?

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I have a minor work of art as a form now, tweaked and honed over a
year or two as needs developed, and now need to introduce a large
subform so its best to have subform as page 2 of a tabcontrol, with
the main-form sitting on page/tab 1 of a two page/tab control.

I tried extending the form base sheet down, introducing the tab
control then dragging my form captions and field windows onto page 1,
but they end up under the tab control still on my coloured background.

How is it done ? If I drag them out from table fieldlist the tab
darkens then they sit on it, okay, it works, but this means designing
the whole thing again ! Coding for linked images, all sorts !
 
envirographics said:
I have a minor work of art as a form now, tweaked and honed over a
year or two as needs developed, and now need to introduce a large
subform so its best to have subform as page 2 of a tabcontrol, with
the main-form sitting on page/tab 1 of a two page/tab control.

I tried extending the form base sheet down, introducing the tab
control then dragging my form captions and field windows onto page 1,
but they end up under the tab control still on my coloured background.

How is it done ? If I drag them out from table fieldlist the tab
darkens then they sit on it, okay, it works, but this means designing
the whole thing again ! Coding for linked images, all sorts !
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Only new controls can be "dragged" onto a TabPage. Existing controls have
to be cut n' pasted. You will need to take note of all controls that have
[Event Procedure] code running against them noting both the name of the
control and the event. When you cut n' paste, these controls will all lose
the "[Event Procedure]" entry so you will need to put them back after the
paste. The code in the form's module will still be there. All that will
be missing is the "[Event Procedure]" setting for each event property.
 
Rick,
Thats good news, I can manage that I think, thanks very much. Over one
hurdle hit another though. I'll ask here as its sort of related ! I
could not find a way of applying my background image to the tab form,
the only thing the picture property does is apply an image in the tab
area extreme top next to text, pushing text to one side. How can I
overcome this, even to apply a flat colour would be better than grey !
Is this design problem overcome in Access2000, I am Access97 ? My
forms are most relaxing/pleasing to the eye with colour co-ordinated
text backgrounds and image, relaxing when data entering, grey isn't !
Steve


Rick Brandt said:
envirographics said:
I have a minor work of art as a form now, tweaked and honed over a
year or two as needs developed, and now need to introduce a large
subform so its best to have subform as page 2 of a tabcontrol, with
the main-form sitting on page/tab 1 of a two page/tab control.

I tried extending the form base sheet down, introducing the tab
control then dragging my form captions and field windows onto page 1,
but they end up under the tab control still on my coloured background.

How is it done ? If I drag them out from table fieldlist the tab
darkens then they sit on it, okay, it works, but this means designing
the whole thing again ! Coding for linked images, all sorts !
Click to expand...

Only new controls can be "dragged" onto a TabPage. Existing controls have
to be cut n' pasted. You will need to take note of all controls that have
[Event Procedure] code running against them noting both the name of the
control and the event. When you cut n' paste, these controls will all lose
the "[Event Procedure]" entry so you will need to put them back after the
paste. The code in the form's module will still be there. All that will
be missing is the "[Event Procedure]" setting for each event property.
Click to expand...
 
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