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"invisible cursor" in form
I have a popup form with a text box that I'm trying to "masquerade" as a line
of text, as in a label. The text box contains an email address. I am trying to mimic the behavior of the familiar "hyperlink" style of email address that opens the default mail handler upon single click. It works just fine with transparent back style, blue fore color, etc., except for one thing that gives it away. The box must be enabled in order to fire the On Click event and so the cursor is blinking in the textbox when the address is clicked. Is there anyway to make the cursor invisible in the textbox or in the form (it's the only control on the form)? Thanks, Bill R -- Bill Reed "If you can't laugh at yourself, laugh at somebody else" Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...forms/200604/1 |
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"invisible cursor" in form
Hi,
you can not make the cursor invisible...the only options you have within the textbox is to determine how the cursor will behave when the control receives focus. You can send it to the end of the value, the beginning or have the text be highlighted. Now one possible solution might be to set focus on the on click event of this control to another control. This way the cursor will only shortly be visible in the control and then move to the other specified one. You could add a tiny command button with its transperant property set to yes which could receive the focus...BUT why can't you just use a label in the first place for this? HTH Good luck -- Oliver Admin Specialist & Computer Science Major @ UMD - Go Terps - http://www.oli-s.de "ragtopcaddy via AccessMonster.com" wrote: I have a popup form with a text box that I'm trying to "masquerade" as a line of text, as in a label. The text box contains an email address. I am trying to mimic the behavior of the familiar "hyperlink" style of email address that opens the default mail handler upon single click. It works just fine with transparent back style, blue fore color, etc., except for one thing that gives it away. The box must be enabled in order to fire the On Click event and so the cursor is blinking in the textbox when the address is clicked. Is there anyway to make the cursor invisible in the textbox or in the form (it's the only control on the form)? Thanks, Bill R -- Bill Reed "If you can't laugh at yourself, laugh at somebody else" Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...forms/200604/1 |
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"invisible cursor" in form
Thanks for the suggestions.
The form is based on a query that returns the administrator's email address. I bound the txtbox source to that value. It turns out that closing the form after the click event does just what I need. But I will certainly keep your advice in mind next time around. Bill R freakazeud wrote: Hi, you can not make the cursor invisible...the only options you have within the textbox is to determine how the cursor will behave when the control receives focus. You can send it to the end of the value, the beginning or have the text be highlighted. Now one possible solution might be to set focus on the on click event of this control to another control. This way the cursor will only shortly be visible in the control and then move to the other specified one. You could add a tiny command button with its transperant property set to yes which could receive the focus...BUT why can't you just use a label in the first place for this? HTH Good luck I have a popup form with a text box that I'm trying to "masquerade" as a line of text, as in a label. The text box contains an email address. I am trying [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] Bill R -- Bill Reed "If you can't laugh at yourself, laugh at somebody else" Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...forms/200604/1 |
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