SetFocus causes screen flicker

[Deutz]

Hi and thanks in advance,

I have an Access 2003 db with a form that has a tab control.


On one of the tabs I have about 72 unbound textboxes (bounded by rectangles) which can be tabbed horizontally. I wanted the functionality where you can tab vertically as well as horizontally (like a spreadsheet) but wanted them to be unbound (could not use a subform) so I created a table that stores which textbox to move to when the user presses the up or down arrow key.
This works fine except that the controls flicker noticably when you set focus to another textbox. This does not happen when you tab normally (horizontally).

Any idea how to kill the flicker?

I tried docmd.echo false and application.echo false ... but that did nothing.


Thanks
Deutz

[Deutz]

Forgot to mention that I have this same textbox functionality on another form without a tab control and there is no screen flicker. So it seems that the tab control is the culprit ... the question is how to get around it?

Thanks
Deutz