White rectangle behind Button on hover

[June7]

Okay, got it now - even in my db. I had to actually close and save the form, which I wasn't before. Then reopen and the hover issue presents. I switch form to Design view and then back to Form view and no rectangle. Same thing with your db form. Open form and get rectangle - switch to Design view and back to Form view and no rectangle.



I'll call that a bug.

[Miles R]

Okay, got it now - even in my db. I had to actually close and save the form, which I wasn't before. Then reopen and the hover issue presents. I switch form to Design view and then back to Form view and no rectangle. Same thing with your db form. Open form and get rectangle - switch to Design view and back to Form view and no rectangle.

I'll call that a bug.

Thanks June7. I think we can call that a bug. You can sort of get round it by setting the Pressed Color of the tab control to the same colour as the background.
I'll mark this thread as closed.

[isladogs]

Using A365, I've repeated the test using a button with a shadow from the bottom row. No issue on my machine



If I could replicate it, I would have reported it as an irritation (rather than a bug)

In that sense, a bit like the dotted square 'bug' below - annoying but doesn't affect functionality

[Miles R]

isladogs - have you tried the database I uploaded at 8.49 today (last post on Page 1)?
At least two people get this issue. If you don't get it your system, I can only assume its an issue with the video card or acceleration or something like that.

[isladogs]

I hadn't seen it earlier but have just tested and can replicate the error.
Better still, I know how to fix it!😎

Its a variation on the dotted square bug I mentioned earlier.
To remove the yellow 'border', go to design view and remove the form icon from the form header section
See attached

[Miles R]

Don't know what's happening here, but I downloaded your fixed version onto my system and I still get the yellow border when hovering on the blue button or clicking on the green button.
I tried on my own copy and removed the form icon, but I still get the bug - it clearly is a bug.
Thanks for helping with this, but at least I know I can get around it by changing the Pressed Color to light green.

[isladogs]

Sorry to raise your hopes. Its not just you. When I downloaded my 'fixed file' on another machine, the border reappears!

The yellow border is an artefact of using any shape effects such as shadow or glow.
The border is the space reserved for the shape effect and is a solid colour.
If you remove the shape effect or use a solid background for the tab control, you shouldn't have any problems

See Form1 on the updated file attached. Hopefully OK this time

[Miles R]

Yes, that has fixed it - you have done as I did and set the Pressed Color properties to the same colour as the detail background.

[Micron]

Making border transparent has no effect on the button appearance but it makes the problem go away. In the sample db, the thing you put the button on is properly known as a page, not a tab. Why the parent isn't called a page control or the pages called tabs so that it makes more sense I don't know.

[isladogs]

Yes, that has fixed it - you have done as I did and set the Pressed Color properties to the same colour as the detail background.

No I didn't. Look at the form I created - Form1

Agree with @Micron re confusion with pages on a tab control

[Miles R]

Thanks for the help on this. I am now trying to figure out why when on my actual application, with a Tab Control backstyle of Normal, and back colour of white (see attached), the "pages" on the Tab control are actually set to the light green colour of the Form detail backcolour (set from VBA in the form load). Its as if it is treating the Tab Control as Transparent.
If I figure this out, I will get back to you.

[davegri]

Set the tabctl proprty USE THEME = YES

Then you can control colors at your pleasure:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Section(acDetail).BackColor = &HAACCAA
Me.TabCtl1.PressedColor = &HCCBBBB
End Sub

[Miles R]

Thanks, but I already set those values in my Form_load event, but I have the USE THEME = NO
It seems to work the way I want.
What is not clear to me is why the Pages on the Tab Control have the background colour of the form detail, when the Tab Control background is set to Normal.

[Miles R]

OK, done my final bit of research on this, now I'll move on.
On my test database, which was created with Access 365, if I set the Tab Control properties to Back Style: Normal, Use Theme: No, the default colour of the tab control is used. If I change Back Style: Transparent, the colour of the tab pages is the colour of the Detail section - this is as expected.
On my main database, which was created in Access 2007 and converted to Access 365, if Use Theme is No, it always seems to treat the Back Style as Transparent, whether it is set to Normal or Transparent.
Must be a bug on converted databases - can't see any other explanation and can't replicate on newly created databases.

[isladogs]

There are several features not in Access 2007. One of those is Themes which were added in Access 2010.
It shouldn't be too surprising that you get the behaviour you describe.

Easy solution. Make a copy of the original form in A365. It should then behave as you'd expect