View Full Version : Tabs on Forms - How To Use


jblackman
04-11-2001, 06:33 PM
Can anyone walk me through how to use tabs. I have created the tabs, it automatically comes up with two, but both show same info like one is see through or something... can you walk me through how to set these up?

Thanks, jb.

Atomic Shrimp
04-12-2001, 12:40 AM
Sounds like you're having the same sort of problems as Arage here: http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/ubb/Forum4/HTML/002612.html

When you add controls to a page of a tab control, you should first have selected the page (not the whole tab control object), then you select the object from the toolbox and add it to the page - Access will colour the page black just before you drop the object to confirm that it's definitely going into the page.

Otherwise, you can end up with controls that are simply 'floating' in front of the tab control object and they will appear regardless of the page that is selected (I suppose that on rare occasions, this may be desirable, for example if you want your 'Quit' button to be visible on every page (although normally you would position it outside the tab control in this case, unless tab control takes up the whole form for aesthetic reasons)

HTH

Mike