Display Problem

[lyrics117]

Hey guys well I'm a newb to access and this forum, so bare with me.

The problem is that a created an access database, designed everything very nicely and everything was looking good.

I copied it to my thumb drive because I wanted to use it on another computer.

When I opened it on that computer my access database looked like windows classic view and not the the lovely luna win xp theme. so the icons and colors i took some much time designing looked like crap against the win classic background.

i had a tab control embedded in a form and the color problem localized in that.

Example

please help
no the other computers were not using the win classic style theme
i tried this on access 2003 and access 2002 and 2000

i run winxp sp1 and access 2003

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I have a clue, but one clue only. (BTW I cannot look at your example, my site's firewall barfs when a butterfly farts in Korea.)

Open one of the forms on the machine where you developed your DB. Any one of them, doesn't matter as long as it has the color scheme you designed. Open any control that has that scheme (except a tab control, which has limited color at best). Look at the Format properties of that control. Find the Forecolor and/or Backcolor.

If the number displayed is a positive integer less than or equal to 16777215, the answer is one thing. If the answer looks like it might be a negative number, the answer is another thing. Or if the answer looks like something in the vicinity of 2147483666 (which is a 32-bit unsigned number for which bit 31 is set.)

If the number is a positive integer and the design still looks like heck, you have screen color settings set too low on the machine in question. Look at the settings on your design machine. See if it is possible that your design system's color range is higher than your other system's color range. Like, one system with 32-bit color and the other with only 24 bits. In such cases, it is possible (not guaranteed) that Access is falling back to a default behavior because it cannot use the scheme you used.

If the number is a negative integer or one of those funky big, unsigned integers as noted above, you are deriving the screen colors from the Windows color scheme itself. Remember, even if you have a screen saver or wallpaper that completely overrides everything in the color scheme, you can run into a bad case of color-scheme inheritance. There is a module you can look up with Object Browser that shows the color codes that correspond to things like "Active Window Title Bar" and "Inactive Window Background" and such - all derived from the color scheme.

 

[lyrics117]

thanks I'll see if that works, if anyone else has any comments or suggestions fire away.