Way to set fore and backcolor in form caption?

[twgonder]

I've searched Google and here, I can't find any mention of this.

I want to set the fore and backcolors of the caption bar (or whatever it's called) on the top of a form.

This compiles:
Me.Caption = "Status: Error - " & gError


This doesn't:
Me.Caption.BackColor = vbRed

Compiler error: Invalid qualifier
Can it be done and what's the syntax?

[Minty]

I don't think it can be set.
I think it picks up the colour from the current windows theme.

[CJ_London]

Use a label to look like the windows bar and open the form with no borders or thin borders.

[twgonder]

Use a label to look like the windows bar and open the form with no borders or thin borders.

I've played with turning off the borders, the only problem I've come across is if a form gets stuck or is in a loop, I haven't yet found a way to close it down. I hate to just close the whole Access window. My laptop doesn't support the break-key. Since I've added a close button along with many others for form/record control, the suggestion seems quite viable.

Have you done this and with any other problems popping up other than the two I mentioned above?

[CJ_London]

Have you done this and with any other problems popping up other than the two I mentioned above?

yes. and no problems - you can add code to the label (using the mouse events) to move the window around if required. Not sure what you mean by 'getting stuck' but as far as loops are concerned, I suppose could happen in development but should not happen when released to production as the code should have resolved handling of all possible loops.