Form controls not appearing at runtime

[Elfman]

Hi All,

I've created a form in design view with a number of controls:
buttons, test boxes, ect...

Wherever I try to to view it in form mode the form comes up
but none of the controls are viable. All are set to visable in the
properties of each control.


Has anyone camae accross thsi problem/know what can cause it


Thanks for youe helpm

- Elfman

 

[missinglinq]

The usual cause for controls not even being visible, when their visibility is set to Yes, is that the form's RecordSet has no records and records can't be added.

There are an umber of reasons why records can't be added. The AllowAdditions Property may be set to No or, if the form is based on a query, the query may be Read-Only.

If the form is based on a query, you can see if the query is Read-Only by opening it independent of the form and trying to add a record. If the query is, in fact, Read-Only, Allen Browne has an excellent article that explains why this is and how to work around it.

http://allenbrowne.com/ser-61.html