[RESOLVED] Access Form Resizing...

[Static]

How on earth do u get the controls (like a tab) to resize with the form???

The form width stays the same when u change the form width...
(yeah.. I know that sounds funny) but in design view u can change the form width..... but in Normal View.. when u resize the form... the actual width doesnt change? get it???

help? what a I missing?

thanks

[salvelinus]

I don't think you can do that, up to Access 2K, anyway. It'd be interesting to know if there is a way.

[Static]

there MUST be a way!???

if this Event exists..
Private Sub Form_Resize()

there must be a way to tap into the right property...

anyone?

[salvelinus]

Text boxes have a CanGrow & CanShrink property, at least for printing forms & reports.
I did a search on Google groups, & other than 3rd party tools, it looks like you have to manually adjust a controls size in the form's Resize event. All I could find, sorry.

[Static]

omg.. it couldnt have been more obvious!! i didnt even see it before...

Me.WindowWidth!!!

only odd thing... u need to resize controls BEFORE me.width
me.width will not reduce untill the controls have been reduced...

but it works!!

[salvelinus]

Wouldn't that make it the width of the form? That won't resize controls in general (buttons, textboxes, etc).

[Static]

well that was the issue... since with "width" of the form and the width of the window are different.. I couldn figure out how to set the form width to the window width so I could adjust the controls according to the window....