ControlTip text will display on some but not all of my form's buttons

[Andrew Coyle]

You beauty Dirk, exactly right.

As an extension, is it possible to add functionality to my right mouse
button so that 'bring to front' will come up on the right click mouse menu
(rather than having to use the Format->bring to front menu)?

Thanks
A


"Dirk Goldgar" <dg@NOdataSPAMgnostics.com> wrote in message
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> "Andrew Coyle" <andreworbitb@TAKEOUThotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi
> > I am making a form, and have about 6 buttons on it at the moment.
> > I have got both Status Bar Text and ControlTip text on each button.
> >
> > 3 of my buttons behave correctly, when you move the focus onto them
> > the Status Bar text updates, and when you hover the mouse over them
> > the control tip pops up.
> >
> > The other 3 however never seem to get the control tip UNLESS the
> > focus is on them. Only once you get the focus onto those buttons the
> > control tip will appear if the mouse hovers over them.
> >
> > Any ideas?

>
> Sometimes there's something else -- often a rectangle -- that Access
> thinks is in front of the controls with the controltips, and so Access
> doesn't display them until getting the focus brings them to the front.
> Try this: open the form in design view, select all the buttons that are
> having this problem, and click Format -> Bring to Front. Save the form,
> then open it and see if the controltips work properly.
>
> --
> Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
> [url]www.datagnostics.com[/url]
>
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>

[Dirk Goldgar]

"Andrew Coyle" <andreworbitb@TAKEOUThotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> As an extension, is it possible to add functionality to my right mouse
> button so that 'bring to front' will come up on the right click mouse
> menu (rather than having to use the Format->bring to front menu)?

Yes, you can do that. See the help topic "Add a command to a menu".

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
[url]www.datagnostics.com[/url]

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