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ActiveX Controls Look Funky,..?
All,
I am starting out learning vba/vbe, but I am having problems controlling the ActiveX control objects. When I insert buttons and boxes from the forms toolbar, they work fine (except they don't have the same capabilities as ActiveX controls), when I insert ActiveX controls, I am getting wierd font behavior. When the object is selected, the text in the object looks fine. But when I select a worksheet cell or another object, the font goes wierd. Each letter in the text appears to get wider, so they run into eachother and look weird. As the users selects different buttons, the text changes every time. The problem seems to be limited to only my laptop, my desktop works ok. To show what this looks like I posted a screen dump here showing excel running objects on both my laptop and my desktop: http://mysite.verizon.net/res6ss6a/compareexcel/ Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? Thanks, NB Dallas TX |
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ActiveX Controls Look Funky,..?
Maybe a problem with the video driver on your laptop? If the exact
same workbook is OK on your desktop it seems to point to it being a hardware issue. tim "fishchoke" wrote in message ... All, I am starting out learning vba/vbe, but I am having problems controlling the ActiveX control objects. When I insert buttons and boxes from the forms toolbar, they work fine (except they don't have the same capabilities as ActiveX controls), when I insert ActiveX controls, I am getting wierd font behavior. When the object is selected, the text in the object looks fine. But when I select a worksheet cell or another object, the font goes wierd. Each letter in the text appears to get wider, so they run into eachother and look weird. As the users selects different buttons, the text changes every time. The problem seems to be limited to only my laptop, my desktop works ok. To show what this looks like I posted a screen dump here showing excel running objects on both my laptop and my desktop: http://mysite.verizon.net/res6ss6a/compareexcel/ Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? Thanks, NB Dallas TX |
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ActiveX Controls Look Funky,..?
FWIW, I've found the Forms toolbar controls to be more reliable when used on
worksheets than the ActiveX controls on the Controls Toolbox. Although the behavior you describe is unfamiliar to me, I have seen that sometimes ActiveX controls display differently depending on whether you're in text edit mode on their captions. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ fishchoke wrote: All, I am starting out learning vba/vbe, but I am having problems controlling the ActiveX control objects. When I insert buttons and boxes from the forms toolbar, they work fine (except they don't have the same capabilities as ActiveX controls), when I insert ActiveX controls, I am getting wierd font behavior. When the object is selected, the text in the object looks fine. But when I select a worksheet cell or another object, the font goes wierd. Each letter in the text appears to get wider, so they run into eachother and look weird. As the users selects different buttons, the text changes every time. The problem seems to be limited to only my laptop, my desktop works ok. To show what this looks like I posted a screen dump here showing excel running objects on both my laptop and my desktop: http://mysite.verizon.net/res6ss6a/compareexcel/ Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? Thanks, NB Dallas TX |
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Tim is right, it is definitely the video drivers. I experimented with
different drivers for my machine. After reinstalling the original oem drivers that came with the computer the problem went away, mostly. The text still changes with focus is locked / unlocked, but the change is now so small it's insignificant, I guess the program code that draws the font on the screen when editing is different than the code when not editing? Thanks to Tim and and all. "fishchoke" wrote: All, I am starting out learning vba/vbe, but I am having problems controlling the ActiveX control objects. When I insert buttons and boxes from the forms toolbar, they work fine (except they don't have the same capabilities as ActiveX controls), when I insert ActiveX controls, I am getting wierd font behavior. When the object is selected, the text in the object looks fine. But when I select a worksheet cell or another object, the font goes wierd. Each letter in the text appears to get wider, so they run into eachother and look weird. As the users selects different buttons, the text changes every time. The problem seems to be limited to only my laptop, my desktop works ok. To show what this looks like I posted a screen dump here showing excel running objects on both my laptop and my desktop: http://mysite.verizon.net/res6ss6a/compareexcel/ Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? Thanks, NB Dallas TX |
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