How to Stop something being highlit

[Middlemarch]

I often get something highlighted (or selected) suggesting it has some significance, which is wrong when, e.g. its just displaying a list
But I can't get this highlight to go away, unless I click somewhere else. If its a pop up form then on the main form.


How can I achieve this in my code ? I've tried this

  If someCondition = True Then
        DoCmd.OpenForm "frmER", acNormal
        Me.text1.SetFocus
    End If

But the item in frmER stays highlighted.

[June7]

What do you mean by "get something highlighted"? Something must happen to cause this. Exactly what is hightlighted?

[Middlemarch]

A row or line of text. It can happen in lots of different controls, in this case it's a listview.
By highlighted/selected I mean it has a different fore/back color to other rows and moves to each row you click on.
Usually the first row initially.

[Middlemarch]

I should add there's a hack to get this - a textbox on the same Form (unlike my example in #1) and set focus that
after it's been hidden, or covered up. In some apps (VB6 I think) you can set it's left to a negative and it becomes invisible.
I was hoping for a more elegant method. Just suppress it or move to a text box on a different Form.

[June7]

A listview or a listbox?

[Middlemarch]

A listview. But I suspect it's a bridge too far... even if focus moves to an invisible text box, it comes back as soon as you scroll!

[Middlemarch]

I did find a solution, FullRowSelect set False and the first col to a width of 20 with no Header.
The highlight then is only in the first column which now can't be seen.