text boxes appear to be flashing on my form

[Guest]

Hi there,

I am building a form which has multiple tabs on in. In these tabs are
various sub-forms and text boxes for data gathering and reporting.

One of my tabs is a summary tab where I have a bunch of text boxes that link
to the different sub forms and gather the important pieces of information I
need for the summary tab. These text boxes would have a control sources
something like this: =Forms!MainForm!SubForm!txtSomeData

I have about 50 text boxes on my summary tab now and I've noticed some
interesting behaviours as the number of text boxes grows. I don't have any
coding issues as all my calculations and links work properly, but what I'm
noticing is that when ever my mouse hovers over the screen, it appears that
all the numbers in my summary tab flash.

There are no event procedures running on any of these text boxes nor is
there any events running on the main form itself other than the OnLoad
procedure.

I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing similar behaviours with
their Access forms and was wondering if it is a computer hardward issue or
something else.

If anyone has experienced this or knows of it happening, I'd love to know
what is happening. (FYI...I'm running Windows XP, Intel P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM)

Thanks!!
TT

 

[BruceM]

Among the wealth of information Allen Browne has made available is this
article that may explain your situation:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-46.html

BTW, the version information of Access is among the information that should
be included with such an inquiry as yours.

 

[Guest]

My apologies about that. I remembered that I forgot it after I hit "Post".

I'm on Access 2003

Regards.

 

[BruceM]

I wondered about the omission, since you were so thorough and yet concise
about the other details. Allen's article is specifically about Access 2003.
The problem is unattached labels on a tab control. The workaround is to
convert them to text boxes, with some caveats.

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much for your help Bruce! I used Allen's code and it worked like a
charm. I'm very greatful to everyone that helps out here. It sure can save
you a lot of time if someone has already come up with a solution to a similar
problem.

I was trying to find some information on this before I posed a question but
of course I was using the wrong search words like "blinking" and "flashing".
If I would have used "flicker", I would have found all kinds of information.
Duh.

Oh well...live and learn!! Thanks again for all of your help! I greatly
appreciate it!
Kind Regards,

 

[BruceM]

Yes, finding the wording is often a big part of finding the answer.
Sometimes there just does not seem to be a way of wording the search. Allen
Browne's site and several others (most of which are linked to from Allen's
site) have become important volumes in my reference library.