Tab Control

[Pikeboy]

I've got a tab control with 4 tabs on a form. If I select the 2nd tab and update a couple of subforms based on a listbox I have, everything works great. However, if I then select the first tab to do something similar, some of the labels from the 2nd tab show through. How to stop this?

thanks,

Pikeboy

 

[Pat Hartman]

When you are creating controls on a tab, you need to make sure they end up on the tab control rather than on the background form.

Delete any control that bleeds through onto multiple tabs.

Select the tab page you want to add them to and paste them back. Make sure that the tab page is highlighted before you paste. Otherwise, they'll just end up being pasted onto the form rather than the tab page. I don't believe you can drag controls onto a tab page. I believe you need to cut and paste.

 

[Pikeboy]

That's exactly what I had done. Thanks for the response.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

just one point.

unattached labels on tabs give a nasty flickering effect as a mouse rolls over them.

the soultion is to change them into disabled text boxes.