Title Bar Colour

[M_S_Jones]

Hello,

I'm sorry if this has been asked before on this forum, but after a brief browse I didn't see it here. How can I change the colour of the title bar of a form?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Guus2005]

Right-click somewhere on an empty part of your screen. Choose properties. A popup "display properties" will appear. Choose tab appearance. Click Advanced.
Here you can alter the appearance of Access. In fact all the windows will change.

Enjoy!

 

[M_S_Jones]

Thanks for the reply. I can't find the pop-up that you speak of. In fact, right-clicking an empty part of the screen yeilds nothing at all. I am using Access 2000, does that make a difference?

Matt

 

[DJkarl]

I think Guus was referring to a blank part of your desktop, the Title bar and windows colors are controlled by the OS, I don't know of anyway to change a specific Window color without affecting all other Windows.

 

[M_S_Jones]

Oh I see. Okay then. Well if anyone knows of a way that I could change just the title bars of access windows then please post instructions for me. Surely there must be a way to do it with VBA?

Matt

 

[Guus2005]

You can fake it by turning the border off of your form and add a label at the top of your form which you can color any way you want.

Examine my sample!

Enjoy!

 

[M_S_Jones]

I see, very good. It's a shame that using this technique prevents the user from dragging the window around by the title bar (for example to move it into a different position on the screen). But that isn't really a problem. Thanks!

Matt

 

[M_S_Jones]

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=669&NoBox=True

Could this, or a variation of it, be used in Access?

Matt

 

[Guus2005]

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=669&NoBox=True

Could this, or a variation of it, be used in Access?

Matt

This code doesn't work.

 

[M_S_Jones]

Okay. Is there something that can be done along those lines? Was the author onto something there? If not then I'm happy to stick to the label idea.

Matt

 

[Guus2005]

I have put the code in this sample database.
Play with it...