Tab Control Is Not Transparent

[Steven Deetz]

Customers who are using Acess 2003 seem to have what I call a goofy display of Tab Controls on forms. At a specific PC you can create a tab control on a form and set the properties to Transparent but the tab stays white while the form is another color. When I take control of the application through a VPN connection and view this specific form over the internet the tab appears transparent and the form color is visible in the tab control.

When I use my own PC running Win XP to create a form in Access 2003, the tab control on the form is transparent. When I then copy the mdb that stores this form onto my customer's machine, or import the form to an mdb on the customer machine the tab control is white even though the property is set to transparent. When I copy the mdb from my customer's PC with the misbehaving form and tab control to my PC and view the form, the tab control appears transparent.

Is there a setting on the actual screen display that is causing this problem or am I missing another property on the form and/or tab control? This working on some but not all PC's is annoying.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Steven Deetz]

Problem Solved

I was able to get the transparent property to work by changing a property in Access itself. Under the Tools, Option menu I selected the Forms/Report tabl and unchecked the "Used Windows Theme Controls on Form" property!

What I need to understand is why can it be checked on my local machine and the transparent property in tab control works fine but on selective machines the "Used Windows Themed Controls on Form" property has to be unchecked for the transparent property in a tab control to work properly.

 

[JGLarner]

Why the tab is sometimes transparent, sometimes not

The reason that the tab control is sometimes transparent, sometimes not is that it relates to the Windows login. The 'Windows Theme' setting must be unchecked for each windows login profile if you don't want this behavior when you open Access under that Windows login. You are seeing it differently when you log into Windows differently.