Alternating colours of continuous form go wrong

[Miles R]

I have a continuous form with alternating colours of Blue and Light blue.
Sometimes when scrolling through the form, the colours go wrong - see attached.
When I go past and back up again, they get reset correctly. Possibly a refresh after scrolling would clear it?
Anyone seen this before, is it an Access bug or a graphics card issue or something like that?

[Micron]

Never seen it before - assume it's a graphics card/driver or Windows issue. You should not have to repaint the form, but that's an option I guess. I would not think it mattered if you used theme or standard colours for those choices, or a mix of those colours either. The 6 or 7 blocks that alternate across are null fields?

[June7]

I have seen it but can't remember cause. It was a long time ago.

If you want to provide db for analysis, follow instructions at bottom of my post.

[Micron]

This contains 2 possible causes

https://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=16679

[Miles R]

Thanks for the replies.
Don't think this is anything to do with the design. It's a simple continuous form without any conditional formatting. The blocks of the wrong colour are where there is no text box on the form.

It only happens when dragging the scroll bar fast and the blocks are cleared when moving past them.

Doing a screen refresh does not clear them.

I guess I will have to live with this. Never had or noticed this problem in Access 2007. Might remove the alternate shading altogether or possibly adding some dummy fields to the form.

[Miles R]

I have found two workarounds for this problem.
1. Create a disabled and locked transparent text box the full width and height of the detail section, at the back. This seems to completely stop the blocking from appearing.
2. Set the two background colours the same. Also works, but lose the advantage of identifying the lines easily.

Not sure which I will use yet. Don't really like using the cludge of option 1.

[Welshgasman]

Why not post enough so other members can see if it happens to the DB on their computer.
I only have 2007, but others here will have later versions.

[Miles R]

Nice idea, but it would take too much effort - would probably have to copy most of the database to do it.
Got to move on as I have already spent several hours on this.
My solution is just to remove the alternate colours.