Large Blinking Cursor

[ThomasLafferty]

How do I get Access to let me have a large blinking cursor in a text box? I have already tried modifying my cursor size in my control panel and it works fine in the address bar of my web browser, but in a Datasheet text box or a Form text box, I only get the skinny little blinking cursor. Know how to fix this?

Tom

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[TheAceMan1]

How are ya ThomasLafferty . . .

[blue]You can't have a cursor larger that the verticle height of a control![/blue]

Just an Idea, with [blue]Conditional Formatting[/blue] you could [blue]hilight the background color of the control with the current focus![/blue]

[blue]Your Thoughts?[/blue]

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[ThomasLafferty]

Hi Aceman! How are ya? Tried this and it works, but shows every [!]instance[/!] of that control. The problem is that the control in question resides on a continuous subform, so if I conditionally format it based on having the focus, it formats the entire column worth of that control.

The way I did this was to put the name of my control in an unbound text box on enter or get focus. Then, using conditional formatting I refer to the control containing the name, like this:

My unbound control is called txtActiveControl. In the Enter and GotFocus events, for example, of my text box called PaidHours, I put the following line of code:

Me.txtActiveControl.Value = "PaidHours"

Then I used the following expression in the conditional format for PaidHours:

=[txtActiveControl].[Value]="PaidHours"

Works great for highlighting the control, but I have a whole column of instances of PaidHours since I'm viewing my form as a continuous form. The trouble is my user gets interrupted frequently during data entry and is frustrated with looking around to find her insertion point.

Maybe working with the active record might do the trick, but I'm not sure how to refer to a control in the active record. Then again, maybe not since the active record deals with a data set, not a form object, unless of course I'm confused again (which wouldn't surprise me ).

Tom

Live once die twice; live twice die once.

 

[TheAceMan1]

ThomasLafferty . . .

In the [blue]Conditional Formatting[/blue] window in the [blue]dropdown list[/blue] of the combobox do you see [blue]Field Has Focus![/blue] . . .

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[ThomasLafferty]

Wow - do I feel blind... wonder why I never noticed that before. Thanks Aceman!

Tom

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