PRB: Toolbar Not Updated When Switching Window Types

Article ID: Q121897
Creation Date: 23-OCT-1994
Revision Date: 01-DEC-1996

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access version 2.0, 7.0, 97

SYMPTOMS

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

When you switch from one window to another (for example, from the Database window to a Form Design window), occasionally the toolbar is not updated correctly or multiple buttons on the toolbar appear sunken.

CAUSE

This behavior is caused by the way Microsoft Windows handles right mouse button click events. This behavior occurs only when you release the left and right mouse buttons at exactly the same time.

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, click the toolbar once with the right mouse button, and then once with the left mouse button. The toolbar will be updated correctly.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start Microsoft Access and open the sample database Northwind.mdb (or NWIND.MDB in version 2.0)
Select the Employees form in the Database window.
Position the mouse pointer on the Design button, and then click both the left and right mouse buttons and hold them down.
Release both buttons simultaneously. Note that the Employees form opens in Design view, but the toolbar from the Database window remains.

REFERENCES

For more information about toolbars, search the Help Index for "toolbars, customizing," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

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