Eliminate Form Flicker

[1deadman]

I have made a form that uses a bitmap image as it's background. I have the image stretched to fit form and embedded as opposed to linked. The form only has 3 command buttons on it and a few text boxes. When the form is opened, it flickers between the image and the detail section background color before finally coming to rest with the form correctly displayed. I didn't have this problem before I decided to get fancy and add the image. I have tried:

DoCmd.Echo False
"Code"
DoCmd.Echo True

as well as:

Application.Echo False
"Code"
Application.Echo True

I used the code on the form open event and the form load event with no success. Everything is working fine as far as the database is concerned...the flickering just makes the application look unstable and may scare some potential users away. I am using Access 2000. Any suggestions?

 

[WildHare]

1) Take the image out of the form.

2) Just kidding. If that IS NOT an option, you may need to play with the image a bit, or change something with regards to the video system.

Access converts any EMBEDDED image to an uncompressed, rather large BITMAP object. It might help you to delete the image from the form, save the form, then OUTSIDE of Access, convert the image to a 256-color (or less) depth bitmap ahead of time. Then re-embed it.

You might also try adjusting the color depth of the video driver itself, either up or down. Unless it'a a photographic quality image of some type, 256 colors will look the same at 256-colors, TRUE color, and HIGH color.

Also, the background might be interfering. Is the image in the DETAIL section or the HEADER or Footer? Try it in the Header or Footer - those sections are 'static' more so than the detail section, and that might also work to cure some of the jitters.

Jim How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...
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[rajeessh]

Try playing with Painting property of the Form