I just built a form, and put a straight line just under each
control, using the Line Tool.

On saved records, it looks just like I expected, but on a
new record, the lines don't show up until each field is
visited.

All the lines have been "moved to front".

Using Access/Office 2002 on WindowsXP, SP3.

Any ideas?

--
croy

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:58:33 -0700, croy <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I just built a form, and put a straight line just under each
>control, using the Line Tool.
>
>On saved records, it looks just like I expected, but on a
>new record, the lines don't show up until each field is
>visited.

I take it back. The lines show properly when I first open
the form, but when I move to *any* other record, the lines
don't show until I enter, and then exit each field.

--
croy

Historically, the advice usually given with any "display anomaly" is to
obtain the latest drivers from the manufacturer/provider of your graphics /
display hardware. Sometimes it actually works; in other instances it's just
"one of the things we try and eliminate as a possible contributor to the
problem; in rarer cases, it causes even worse problems. On the assumption
that Murphy was correct, I wouldn't recommend it, but simply note that it is
often suggested.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access


"croy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:58:33 -0700, croy <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>I just built a form, and put a straight line just under each
>>control, using the Line Tool.
>>
>>On saved records, it looks just like I expected, but on a
>>new record, the lines don't show up until each field is
>>visited.
>
> I take it back. The lines show properly when I first open
> the form, but when I move to *any* other record, the lines
> don't show until I enter, and then exit each field.
>
> --
> croy

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:37:57 -0500, "Access Developer"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Historically, the advice usually given with any "display anomaly" is to
>obtain the latest drivers from the manufacturer/provider of your graphics /
>display hardware. Sometimes it actually works; in other instances it's just
>"one of the things we try and eliminate as a possible contributor to the
>problem; in rarer cases, it causes even worse problems. On the assumption
>that Murphy was correct, I wouldn't recommend it, but simply note that it is
>often suggested.

Thanks for the reply.

While I wouldn't rule out the possibility of hardware
drivers being the problem, I'm thinking that it's more
likely an Access problem, because.... When I first open the
form, the lines display correctly. It's only after moving
to a different record that they all disappear, until each
field is visited, when the line for that field will
reappear.

This is on a work computer, so according to the rule-book, I
should call the IT department. But experience has shown
that they will simply throw a stock image back on, costing
me days to get things just partially back to my way of
working.

Maybe I'll boot to my imaging disk and make an image of the
drive, then boot back to WindowsXP and install the latest
graphics drivers, and see if there's a difference.\

The drivers are possibly and issue. This is Gateway/nVidia
box, and Gateway says nothing new. nVidia has something
newer, but I can't determine if it's anything this box would
benefit from or not.

A lot of work for, what I think, is a slight chance of
improvement. Probably less work to assume that this version
of Access doesn't do lines correctly, and figure some other
way to get the effect I want.

--
croy

Until recently, I had Access 2002 available for testing, but something has
resulted in it being "in need of repair" (possibly installing Access 2010),
so I am not in a position to see if I can re-create the problem.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access


"croy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:37:57 -0500, "Access Developer"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Historically, the advice usually given with any "display anomaly" is to
>>obtain the latest drivers from the manufacturer/provider of your graphics
>>/
>>display hardware. Sometimes it actually works; in other instances it's
>>just
>>"one of the things we try and eliminate as a possible contributor to the
>>problem; in rarer cases, it causes even worse problems. On the assumption
>>that Murphy was correct, I wouldn't recommend it, but simply note that it
>>is
>>often suggested.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> While I wouldn't rule out the possibility of hardware
> drivers being the problem, I'm thinking that it's more
> likely an Access problem, because.... When I first open the
> form, the lines display correctly. It's only after moving
> to a different record that they all disappear, until each
> field is visited, when the line for that field will
> reappear.
>
> This is on a work computer, so according to the rule-book, I
> should call the IT department. But experience has shown
> that they will simply throw a stock image back on, costing
> me days to get things just partially back to my way of
> working.
>
> Maybe I'll boot to my imaging disk and make an image of the
> drive, then boot back to WindowsXP and install the latest
> graphics drivers, and see if there's a difference.\
>
> The drivers are possibly and issue. This is Gateway/nVidia
> box, and Gateway says nothing new. nVidia has something
> newer, but I can't determine if it's anything this box would
> benefit from or not.
>
> A lot of work for, what I think, is a slight chance of
> improvement. Probably less work to assume that this version
> of Access doesn't do lines correctly, and figure some other
> way to get the effect I want.
>
> --
> croy