Tab control caption for current tab is blank/invisible/missing

[timesscript]

When I choose to use themes in my tab control, suddenly the current tab I am on goes blank. In form view the other tabs also go blank on rollover. If I turn off themes, then it is fine, but the area where the tabs are is no longer transparent, so it looks junky with a colored background.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?


edit: and I was sure I put this in forms, but somehow it's in the access category. If a mod wants to move this, please do. Starting on the right foot indeed! :/

[June7]

Maybe has something to do with the 'rollover/selected' color matching the background. No idea how to fix.

I never use Themes because of issues they cause. I never thought of tabs as looking 'junky'.

[timesscript]

It wouldn't look junky if there was some other way than turning on themes to make the area at the top of the tab control transparent. What I mean, is that the place where more tabs would appear if I added them is white, whereas I have a background of a different color. So there is a white area at the top of the tab control that only goes away and becomes transparent if themes are on, for some reason.

[June7]

I don't think I experience that. I see only the tabs I create, there is no white area in the space where other tabs could be.

[Micron]

I can reproduce the effect shown in your picture, but only by removing the caption text in the page property sheet. It can't be that simple, but I can't tell because you show the property sheet for the form and not for the page or tab control. Re: "make the area at the top of the tab control transparent" - I guess you tried setting the control back style property to transparent, but did not get what you wanted?

[timesscript]

There wasn't anything in the page captions, but adding them did nothing.

Here is the page properties:


Here's what it looks like without styles, hence undesirable:



This is what it looks like with backstyle transparent- obviously not what I want either:

[June7]

Not so obvious to me. That is the display I use.

[Micron]

the solution may be here:
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/...d.php?t=238696

[timesscript]

I read that thread, but there really are no solutions posted, other than changing the themes, which does nothing for me, unfortunately.

[timesscript]

Solved!
For whatever reason, access showed the pressed fore color as #FFFFFF, but when I clicked on it, it actually *behind the scenes* was displaying #000000 instead. Reselecting #FFFFFF didn't change anything on the property sheet, looks-wise, but it did make the text reappear.

Thanks everyone for your help.

[June7]

Some kind of weird corruption?