Transparent property of text box not being affected

[GraeagleBill]

I have a text box where I've set its Back Style to Transparent. I also have image control with the same height, width and screen positioning as the text box. See screenshot below.



The intent is for the prompt (image) behind the transparent text box to be visible to the user. While everything looks correct when in design view, the form displays the text box with solid white Back Style. One would immediately suspect that the two controls are not stacked in the proper order but I've checked that several times to insure the image control HAS BEEN sent to the back.

Any thoughts?

Bill

[pbaldy]

The easy way I've seen to do this is with the format property of the textbox (a single textbox, not stacked). Try this there:

@;"Enter search key here"

[GraeagleBill]

Thanks Paul.

I stumbled upon the issue. Normally both of the two controls are not visible. When the user takes a particular action, both are made visible allowing the user to initiate a search. The problem I was having was that when the action event code ran it included moving the focus to the text box. In doing so, the back style of the text box is automatically set to solid white. I simply removed the SetFocus and I get exactly what I wanted.

Thanks again,
Bill

[pbaldy]

Sounds like the hard way, but glad you got it working.

[GraeagleBill]

Carol likes your way better, so thanks for that!

[pbaldy]

I always knew she was the smart one.