Hello,

Maybe somebody can help me with this. It's not vital, but still odd, and I'd
like to fix it.
What happens is that I have a form with text/combo boxes that are used to
input parameters. For looks, those boxes are surrounded by frames which have
been coloured.
Now I just discovered that when I click inside the frame, the text fields
disappear. Strangely enough, if it's a combo box, the dropdown button will
remain visible, as will other command buttons inside the frame. Clicking
where the field should be will bring it back. And in the case of a form with
several such frames, clicking inside one of them will hide it's text fields,
but make visible again fields in other frames that were previously hidden.

Does anybody have an explanation for this, and, ideally, know a way to stop
this?

Thanks.

Niniel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Maybe somebody can help me with this. It's not vital, but still odd,
> and I'd like to fix it.
> What happens is that I have a form with text/combo boxes that are
> used to input parameters. For looks, those boxes are surrounded by
> frames which have been coloured.
> Now I just discovered that when I click inside the frame, the text
> fields disappear. Strangely enough, if it's a combo box, the dropdown
> button will remain visible, as will other command buttons inside the
> frame. Clicking where the field should be will bring it back. And in
> the case of a form with several such frames, clicking inside one of
> them will hide it's text fields, but make visible again fields in
> other frames that were previously hidden.
>
> Does anybody have an explanation for this, and, ideally, know a way
> to stop this?
>
> Thanks.

The object with focus always moves to the front. No way to prevent your
problem except to make the frame have a transparent background or make it so
it cannot accept the focus. Enabled = No and Locked = True should work for
that.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

That did the trick, thank you very much!

"Rick Brandt" wrote:

>or make it so
> it cannot accept the focus. Enabled = No and Locked = True should work for
> that.
>
> --
> Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
> Email (as appropriate) to...
> RBrandt at Hunter dot com
>
>
>