Why has the theme for command buttons changed?

[ShovelinFishHeads]

I've used the Command Button Wizard several times for making Close Form and Open Report type command buttons. Until now, all of the command buttons produced this way had one consistant theme. Now that theme has changed.

How could that happen if I didn't make any changes to any options?

Naturally, I would prefer that all of the command buttons show the same way across all forms within my project.

thanks everyone!

 

[MarkK]

There is a database setting called "Use Windows Themed Controls on Forms." Different databases might have this setting set to True or to False. Also, different versions of Access may have different default values for this setting.

And, different versions of Access store this setting in different places, so to figure out how to change it it might be best for you to google this text:

How to set MS Access "Use Windows Themed Controls on Forms"

for your particular version of Access.

Hope this helps,

 

[ShovelinFishHeads]

Markk,

Thanks for helping out.

I took a good look at 'Use Windows-themed Controls on Forms' before posting about this. Just trying to figure out why the change if no one did anything to the Options under Options/Current Database. This is why this is so mysterious.

I'm using 2016.

I'll see what I can find out by googling some more as you suggested.

 

[MarkK]

Does changing the setting fix the problem?

 

[ShovelinFishHeads]

MarkK:

Changing the selection under Options/Current Database/Use Windows Themed Controls on Forms, did not effect any of the command buttons currently in use; which means, the inconsistency that I would like to eliminate is still there.

However, it did make the next command button that I experimented with show in "Windows Classic" style.

Wondering if editing the Format portion of the Property Sheet for the control could resolve this. Any ideas?

 

[ShovelinFishHeads]

Under the Format portion of the Property Sheet for both the Correct and Incorrect command buttons, Use Theme says "Yes". While still giving different results.

 

[ShovelinFishHeads]

well.....

I've decided to stop worrying about this and just make copies of the existing "Correct" command buttons and doing the code using the macro builder. So far, seems to be working ok, and it's also pretty simple.