deleting control corrupts from

[markjkubicki]

I have a form (with serveral controls tabs, etc.)
As soon as I delete a control (and, actually, I'd like to delete several), then save the form... it no longer opens (presumably, it is corrupt?)
Compact and Repair does not help.



at best, I get these errors
- when opening the form from a command button on another form: "the OpenForm action was canceled"
-when opening the form from the project explorer: "the expresion on Open you entered as the event property setting produced the following error: Object or Class does not support the set of events."

and suggestions about what the problem might be?

many thnaks in advance,
Mark - "the Frustrated..."

[ajetrumpet]

I've also had this problem in the past, and I never did find an answer. If I didn't save the form after every little change I made 'after changing a textbox to combobox or vise versa', access would crash.

what I did was save the form after every change, be it a name change, moving it 2 px down, whatever. I did this like 10 times and the form never froze again. No idea why.

try importing it into a brand new db file.

[markjkubicki]

A month or few ago, I ran in to the exact same condition you speak about: "save often, and save always... always!!" -and that seemed to work (as annoying as it could be)
That doesn't seem to be the case this time, although,of stuborness, I'll keep trying.
Thanks, if I find anything., I'll def let you know

[pbaldy]

I've been pretty lucky, but if Adam's idea of importing objects into a new db doesn't work (and it is the first thing to try), there's also SaveAsText/LoadFromText at the bottom here:

http://allenbrowne.com/ser-47.html

and decompiling, which is discussed up higher on the same page.