I have a listbox with several entries. When my users click on an entry, it
inverses the colors. Normally it is a white background with black text.
Access reverses it to be a black background with white text for only that
entry - which my users hate.

Is there any way to stop this from happening via VBA? I could use SelText
if it was a combobox to position to the first character but that doesn't work
with a listbox.

I'm stumped....any help would be appreciated.

It is called "reverse video". They are always the opposite of what you set
in the "ForeColor" and "BackColor" Property of your ListBox.

You can experiment with the above Properties to find a combination that is
suitable in both "normal Video" and "reserve video" modes.

--
HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)




"PeterM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a listbox with several entries. When my users click on an entry, it
> inverses the colors. Normally it is a white background with black text.
> Access reverses it to be a black background with white text for only that
> entry - which my users hate.
>
> Is there any way to stop this from happening via VBA? I could use SelText
> if it was a combobox to position to the first character but that doesn't
work
> with a listbox.
>
> I'm stumped....any help would be appreciated.

thank you... however that doesn't answer my question of positioning the
cursor on the line that is selected in the listbox...is there a way to do
that?

"Van T. Dinh" wrote:

> It is called "reverse video". They are always the opposite of what you set
> in the "ForeColor" and "BackColor" Property of your ListBox.
>
> You can experiment with the above Properties to find a combination that is
> suitable in both "normal Video" and "reserve video" modes.
>
> --
> HTH
> Van T. Dinh
> MVP (Access)
>
>
>
>
> "PeterM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B33915E6-0E12-4556-B5B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have a listbox with several entries. When my users click on an entry, it
> > inverses the colors. Normally it is a white background with black text.
> > Access reverses it to be a black background with white text for only that
> > entry - which my users hate.
> >
> > Is there any way to stop this from happening via VBA? I could use SelText
> > if it was a combobox to position to the first character but that doesn't
> work
> > with a listbox.
> >
> > I'm stumped....any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>

I don't think there is any way of positioning the cursor since each line is
an *item* (as a whole) in the ListBox and you cannot get into a "part" in
this case.

Note that ComboBox is similar to ListBox but ComboBox has a TextBox inbuilt
in it and ListBox doesn't.

--
HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)




"PeterM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:AF8C7334-91F0-459C-A952-(E-Mail Removed)...
> thank you... however that doesn't answer my question of positioning the
> cursor on the line that is selected in the listbox...is there a way to do
> that?
>
> "Van T. Dinh" wrote:
>
> > It is called "reverse video". They are always the opposite of what you
set
> > in the "ForeColor" and "BackColor" Property of your ListBox.
> >
> > You can experiment with the above Properties to find a combination that
is
> > suitable in both "normal Video" and "reserve video" modes.
> >
> > --
> > HTH
> > Van T. Dinh
> > MVP (Access)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "PeterM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:B33915E6-0E12-4556-B5B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I have a listbox with several entries. When my users click on an
entry, it
> > > inverses the colors. Normally it is a white background with black
text.
> > > Access reverses it to be a black background with white text for only
that
> > > entry - which my users hate.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to stop this from happening via VBA? I could use
SelText
> > > if it was a combobox to position to the first character but that
doesn't
> > work
> > > with a listbox.
> > >
> > > I'm stumped....any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >