Re: Disembodied dropdown list of ComboBox

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From: Martin Wilson (Wilson_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:17:02 -0700

That's a good idea. Requery may help as well.

"Dan Artuso" wrote:

> Hi,
> I've never seen that particular thing but, have you tried a
> yourForm.Repaint
>
> in the code somewhere to repaint the form?
>
> --
> HTH
> Dan Artuso, Access MVP
>
>
> "John S. Ford, MD" <johnsfordNOSPAMmd@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eifPWSUnEHA.396@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > This has got me completely baffled. I have a program I coded in Access 97
> > that seemed to have been working perfectly. But today it began behaving
> > strangely.
> >
> > I have a command button on the footer of a subform that can delete a record
> > on that subform. If the record is the last record in the datasource of the
> > subform, the form goes completely gray (including the controls) except for
> > the buttons of the subform footer because the subform's AllowAdditions
> > property is set to False.
> >
> > This all works as expected. My problem is that the dropdown list of one of
> > the subform's ComboBox appears out of nowhere out in space not even on the
> > main form. This didn't used to happen.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas why this happens now? It doesn't look like a
> > coding error the list appears completely disembodied from the main form. I
> > reinstalled Office 97 and it still behaves like this.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
>
>

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