form background

[pb21]

I have a master form with a picture as the background with a timer event that fires every 5 minutes. I have a subform (a clock) with a timer event every second to update the text. How do I make the sub form background transparent so that I see the master form back ground?

I did it this way so I didnt have to update the master form data every second.


help would be much appreciated.

regards

 

[lightray]

Can you not set the control for the subforms visible property to No? or am I understanding wrong

 

[seth_belgium]

I'm afraid that invisible form backgrounds isn't yet a part of Access up to today. Maybe some VB-wizard can help you with some good custom coding?

My advice though: Let your users use the clock in their windows taskbar.

 

[pb21]

Thanks I didnt think there was a way around that, so we took the form off.
thx kind regards