Form with tabs: what's that side bar?

[Guest]

This is probably a dumb question, but I can't find an answer.

I have a form in which I have a few different tabs.

The form (not by my design) has a vertical narrow bar on the left side, with
a little black arrow at the very top. Without clicking on it, I cannot see
the other tabs.

What is that bar? and how does that relate to my tabs. Strangely enough, in
both of my books it's not mentioned.

Thanks,
Pepe

 

[AlCamp]

Haven't you gone into design mode to try to see what this control is?
In form design mode... what are the properties of this bar? Sounds like
it's a "strecthed" out button that someone has coded to show/hide certain
Tabs, but we can only guess...

As far as I know, the only thing Access uses the left edge of a form for
are RecordSelectors.

hth
Al Camp

 

[Guest]

No this is an access generated item. I wish there was an easier way to
describe it.

Don't worry about it I'll figure it out somehow.

thanks,
p

 

[Malcolm Cook]

that is the 'record selector'. though why you shoul dhave to click on it to
see the other tabs, i don't know. look in the form's on_current event proc
and see if there is any logic there to set the tag's pages' .visible
property...

from help:

Show or hide the record selector

For a form

Open the form in Design view.

Double-click the form selector to display the property sheet.

Do one of the following:

To show the record selector, set the RecordSelectors property to Yes.

To hide the record selector, set the RecordSelectors property to No.

 

[AlCamp]

This has to be the "Record Selector". On a continuous form you can see
each record selector button for each record, but on a full screen form, the
record selector is just one long button, as long as the height of the form.
hth
Al Camp