| re: Where to look for textbox background color change at runtime
Wayne, thanks for your help. Conditional formatting was used to make
this change at runtime.
Jose R. Castro
"Wayne Morgan" <comprev_gothroughthenewsgroup@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<DSClb.10692$fI5.3766@newssvr16.news.prodigy. com>...[color=blue]
> As mentioned, it could be in the OnCurrent event of the form. It could also
> be in the AfterUpdate event of the control and a couple of other places. The
> first place I'd look though would be in Conditional Formatting. Open the
> form in design mode, right click the control, and choose Conditional
> Formatting...
>
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> Wayne Morgan
>
>
> "Roberto Castro" <jrcastro20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4eef7255.0310220705.49b28ebd@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have been assigned for the first time an adp Access project and so
> > far I have managed to make the changes needed for some requirements.
> > However, I am struggling to find the place where the application
> > changes the color of the background of a textbox. Here the explanation
> > goes:
> >
> > This is a form bound to an SQL view. The detail section has several
> > fields, one of them being a textbox of name "Type". I checked its
> > properties and the color for the background (Back Color property in
> > the Format tab) is 16777215 (white). When the form is loaded the
> > background color changes to yellow when the value of "Type" is "W"
> > (and the font even changes to Bold!!). I am sure the previous
> > programmer had a reason for that but I have searched the string "Type"
> > in the whole project and I could not find any place where this
> > property was modified by code.
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea where I can look for the specific place
> > where the application makes changes in the properties of the textbox
> > when it loads its value? All hints will be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jose R. Castro[/color][/color]
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