Tips and such like in VBA editor flash on and off

[Guest]

On my new laptop (Windows XP Pro, Access 2003), when the code stops at a
breakpoint, if I point at something in the code to see it's value, the little
box pops up in the normal way but then, a split second later, it disappears.
Then appears again. Then disappears. And so on. In other words, it flashes
on and off continuously, until I move the mouse away.

Anyone got any ideas what is causing this irritating behaviour? It's only
this one computer that is doing this.

 

[Ken Snell \(MVP\)]

Sounds like a Timer event is running while you're viewing the code?

 

[Guest]

Sadly it's nothing so straightforward. Further experimentation shows that
this computer is suffering from a more general problem with Windows
information messages, that is to say any of those messages which pop up, in
many contexts, and have black text on a pale yellow background. It doesn't
just affect Access: for example, if I click the "What's this?" button in the
title bar of a Windows dialog box, and then click somewhere within the box,
the information message pops up and then instantly disappears.

The flashing effect that I described previously is clearly occurring
because, as described above, something is making the value disappear, but
Access is then immediately displaying it again because the mouse pointer is
still pointing at the object or whatever in the code window. The problem,
then, is: what is making these information messages disappear as soon as they
are displayed?

n.b. it happens in safe mode too, which makes me suspect an incorrect
registry setting rather than some rogue process.

I realise this is now verging on being OT, but to be honest I've more
confidence in getting an answer to ANY question in an Access newsgroup, where
people are undoubtedly the most knowledgeable and helpful on the whole of
Usenet...

 

[Ken Snell \(MVP\)]

I don't have a good suggestion for you, sorry. I hope you find the cause of
the problem soon!