Form Flicker

[gray]

Hi

Access2002/2007
WinXPPro SP3

I've a form with a tab control and 4 or 5 tabs. Each tab has a subform on it which is populated as its tab is clicked. This causes quite a lot of screen flicker as scroll bars and the like set themselves up.

Just wondered if anyone could advise the best main-form events to place me.painting=false and me.painting=true?

Some of the mousedown/keydowns don't fire and I think it's too late to put a False in the tab click (and, equally, too early to put the corresponding True at the end of it).

Any advice please? Thanks

 

[MarkK]

Check out DoCmd.Echo too. It might work to 1) turn off screen repainting, however you do it, on the tab click, then 2) start a timer, 3) handle the timer event, 4) turn painting (echo) back on in the timer event, and 5) stop the timer.

 

[gray]

Thanks... Good Idea!

I set the timer to 250 .. seems a bit long I know but it has cut awful lot of the flashing out... I was getting sea sick!

Thnx again!

 

[gemma-the-husky]

flicker is generally caused by having floating labels on tabs (ie not bound to a textbox) . rolling over these labels causes a flicker

the solution is to change them to textboxes.

 

[gray]

Hi GtH

I don't have those in this case but I do use them so thanks for the tip... rgds

 

[Pat Hartman]

Was the form slow to load? Is that why you went to this method?