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[teknohippi]

Bit of help needed with an Access Database that seems to have just decided not to show a text box. No reasons given nothing was changed and the version that has vanished is not any different to other versions I have access to. (this just happens to be the up to date version!) Anyone have any clue cause it has me stumped for sure

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[paradigmshifty]

Just guessing, based on experience with other things, but is there anything else with a hidden attribute nearby?

Best person to ask might be halloran_elder - it's what he plays with all day. (As opposed to what he plays with all night...) :-D

[teknohippi]

Not a thing according to the person who uses the Database it just vanished - and yes that was part of putting the question out there because I know a number of people in this line of business

Cheers

[paradigmshifty]

Sorry - halloranelder

[designadrug]

If nothing with the database, version or report template has changed...

Has anything in the users operating environment changed? (environment variables, security level etc)

It might not be that what is shown has changed, but that their view of it might have.

Just thinking aloud.

[teknohippi]

Not a bad question - I will ask but I hold no great hopes of a coherent answer from the person involved

[designadrug]

Common problem on unix/linux.

"What shell are you using?"

"errr...shell? Like a conch?"

[travisjhall]

Is the box there when you look at the form in design view? If it is, that means the problem relates to visibility, not existence.

[teknohippi]

Yes it is there but the visibility says that it is on and visible - I have tried to create a new box with the same name and it to was not visible

[travisjhall]

Hmmm... It's been a while since I was forced (kicking and screaming) to do interface work in Access.

You created a new textbox with the same name and it wasn't visible? Have you tried creating a new textbox with a different name? If you do that, and the new box is identical apart from the user name and shows up, that indicates that the problem relates to the name of the textbox. Said name is used to identify the box in code.

So, at that point, you would look at the code written for the form. There could be some code manipulating that box. It could be turning the visibility off, or it could be adjusting its location to somewhere beyond the boundaries of the form, or it could be hiding it behind a different control. Or something else.

Try some of that, and let me know the results. If you can confirm that it is code-related, you could even send me the code and I can see if I can spot the bug.