Weird - font on text labels gets bolder as i move through records

[elsandalos]

Hi all,
title says it all!

I've got a form with numerous controls and labels. When i first open the form, all looks fine - all labels are Black Arial 8 Bold. But when i start scrolling through the records, the text on three of my text labels gets bolder. I haven't a clue what is causing this - the labels are just standard - two are associated with controls and one is all on its own.

I have no code written to do this, and in fact i'm not sure you could write code to do this. I've tried renaming the labels, changing the font, deleting and recreating them, but it's always the same three that get darker.

Ideas?

P.

 

[elsandalos]

fixed!

heh, fixed it.

Seems that there's a little redraw bug here.

All three labels were inside boxes with transparent fill. The only difference between these three and the other labels on the form was that i'd put these on AFTER i drew the boxes. Therefore they were 'in front' of the transparent boxes, rather than behind, like all the others. After i clicked them and did a 'send to back' the problem went away.

Even after doing this, the labels still darken slightly when their associated control has focus, so i'm going to avoid transparent boxes altogether from now on.

Funny old bug that - wonder if anyone else has seen it?

El.

 

[constableparks]

I realize this is an OLD thread - but seems it still applies. This happened to me today using Access 2016. I have several labels that start to get blurry as I click through the records. Changed Back Style to "Normal" and all is well.

 

[missinglinq]

This is a bug that has been seen, amazingly, as far back as version 2000! If you're running v2016, the Boys of Redmond obviously have never addressed it.

Here is a site with an explanation and solution of the problem.

http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2003/10/access_cleartyp.html

Linq ;0)>

 

[constableparks]

Linq - thanks for posting the link. Interesting slant at the same problem. The author suggest turning off ClearType which changes the pc. That seems to work for those users and I have no doubt it would work for me as well. But I found that just changing the Back Style on the label property in Access to "Normal" (it defaults to "Transparent") also fixes the issue. It is a much less Windows intrusive solution and by selecting all labels, the change can be made quickly.

Because some of the labels were fine and others got bold/blurry, I thought it may have to do with labels that were the default description from a field that was brought into the form versus a label created by the design menu, but I just tested that and both labels do the same thing. I'll keep trying things as I get time and see if I can detect why some do the behavior and some don't.

 

[missinglinq]

I'll add a link to this thread to my archived response for the problem so that your solution can be included.

It's amazing to me that such a well known bug can exist for 16 years and still hasn't been addressed by the Access development teams.

Linq ;0)>

 

[constableparks]

Thanks Linq. I agree that the bug should have been fixed LONG ago. At least there are a couple of workarounds.