Painting Property

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You can use the Painting property to specify whether forms or reports are repainted.

Setting

The Painting property uses the following settings.

You can set this property by using a macro or Visual Basic.

This property can be set and applies only in Form view and is unavailable in other views.

Remarks

The Painting property is similar to the Echo action. However, the Painting property prevents repainting of a single form or report, whereas the Echo action prevents repainting of all open windows in an application.

Setting the Painting property for a form or report to False also prevents all controls (except subform or subreport controls) on a form or report from being repainted. To prevent a subform or subreport control from being repainted, you must set the Painting property for the subform or subreport to False. (Note that you set the Painting property for the subform or subreport, not the subform or subreport control.)

The Painting property is automatically set to True whenever the form or report gets or loses the focus. You can set this property to False while you are working on a form or report if you don't want to see changes to the form or report or to its controls. For example, if a form has a set of controls that are automatically resized when the form is resized and you don't want the user to see each individual control move, you can turn Painting off, and then move all of the controls, then turn Painting back on.