ControlTip Text on a disabled and locked control?

[Guest]

I have a Ref field on a sub-form where the value pulls from the Main form and
I do not want users to be able to fiddle with it.
So I have set it to Enabled = No and Locked = Yes.
Fine, they cannot get into it.
However, there will probably be somebody who will report the field as not
working, so ideally I would like to use the ControlTip Text to say
"Read-Only!" if they try to get into the field.
But I cannot get this to function. Is this because the field is disabled so
the focus isn't able to go there and hence the Text can't be activated?
Is there any way of achieving what I want?
Thanks a lot
CW

 

[Al Campagna]

CW,
A couple of common causes...
This usually occurs whan a control is inside some other object (like a rectangle). Try
isolating the control and see if TTips works then.
You should be able to keep the rectangle if it is Moved To Back, and the controls
inside are Moved To Front.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Al - I note your suggestion but there wasn't actually any rectangle
in place...however I have found that after closing and re-opening the form it
does now work OK! (I have noticed this with some other things I have done -
even though I save the form after implementing something, on occasions it
doesn't take effect until the form is closed and re-opened. I guess this is
one of those!)
Thanks for the tip about the rectangle anyway coz I do sometimes use those
and would not have known about their impact.
CW