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9.8

textbox borders only change after initial manual intervention

Asked by rberke in Microsoft Access Database

using ms access 2003.

My test form has exactly 3 unbound textboxes named qty, price, charge.

When I start keying in the price field, I want the borders of qty and charge to turn red.

The attached vba code does that.

But if I delete the qty control, create a new control and name it qty, that new control does NOT turn red.  When I view the properties of the open form, the border color shows 255 with width 3, but the rendering does not reflect these values.

If I manually do a dummy change of 255 to 255, things start working.  I can save the form, and close it, and it keeps working every time I open it.  But every time I delete the control, I have to do a one time manual change to the new control.

The same weirdness happens if I delete and replace the price textbox.

the problem is actually worse than it sounds, because I plan on using this technique in another form with lots of textboxes.  I don't want to do manual updates to every text box.



why do I have to do a dummy change the the control, and how can I avoid it.
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Dim bordersOn
 
Private Sub price_Change()
If Not bordersOn Then
    bordersOn = True
    Call turnon("Price")
End If
 
End Sub
Private Sub price_lostFocus()
bordersOn = False
If "y" = InputBox("reset boders?", , "n") Then ' remove if statement after debugging
Call turnOffAll
End If
End Sub
 
 
Private Sub price_GotFocus()
bordersOn = False
Call turnOffAll
End Sub
Function relatedFields(fld)
Select Case LCase(fld)
Case "qty": ans = Array("price", "charge")
Case "price": ans = Array("qty", "charge")
Case "charge": ans = Array("qty", "price")
Case Else
    MsgBox "no related fields"
End Select
relatedFields = ans
End Function
Sub turnOffAll()
For Each control In Array("qty", "price", "charge")
    Me.Controls(control).BorderColor = 0
Next control
End Sub
Sub turnon(fld)
Dim control As Variant
Dim ary()
ary = relatedFields(fld)
 
    For Each control In ary
        With Me.Controls(control)
            .BorderColor = vbRed
            .BorderStyle = 1
            .BorderWidth = 3
        End With
    Next control
End Sub
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