Combo Boxes on forms

[primagic]

Anyone know how to change the background colour of an item when highlighted in a combo box on a form

 

[JBinQLD]

Only through windows own customisation settings so far as I'm aware

There are most likely some funky custom control available but I don't reckon the standard one is that flexible. Hopefully for you, I'm wrong but if it's certainly not one of those simple things.

JB

 

[Guest_imported]

You can change the color of the whole box with a little VBA code in the OnGotFocus and OnLostFocus events. If your combo box is named MyCombo then in the OnGotFocus put:

MyCombo.BackColor = vbYellow ' or whatever color

in the OnLostFocus event put:

MyCombo.BackColor = vbWhite

Or you can use Access colors like you see in the property sheets (numbers).

Now, if you want to customize the color just a SPECIFIC list item in the box, you got me... but Access does that ANYWAY when you click on it!




Richard Rost
Access Instructor

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