[RESOLVED] Access Form Resizing...

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

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

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?

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.

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!!

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

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....
;)