Subform textbox flickering on open and hover

[gkick]

Win10 LO6.4.7 HSQL2.51

Hi,

Form hierarchy of category,subcategory,item,detail with the detail being a text box
while all the others are tablecontrols.
The detail textbox spans the height of the form allowing for heaps of text varchar(8000), the forms cycle behavour
set to default.
All works fine, pressing the enter key will move to a new line as desired.

However on form opening the contents of the textbox flickers, just like a rolldown and then stabilises.
When moving the mouse pointer in and out I also get a brief flickering.

Tried to move the textbox in a separate subform embedded in a tablecontrol with the result of no flicker, however pressing the
enter key now results in a new record.

Any idea what could cause the flickering or how to make the tablecontrol behave like the textbox ie enter new line instead of
new record as cycle active record still moves on to a new one.

Thanks

[Ratslinger]

Hello,

Won’t say this is the problem but your flickering reminds me of this problem in Calc → macro flashing button

As for the multi-line text, can confirm that table control requires Ctrl+Enter for new line entry. It does not actually trigger a new record but activates moving to the next field. If it is the last (or only) field then Enter (or Tab) goes to a new record.

It is possible to generate a handler for this but past experience shows there can be a number of issues to cover when dealing with table controls.

Seems kind of non-standard (bug?) that individual control vs table control act differently.

[gkick]

Thank you @Ratslinger, yes read some where about a flickering bug way back at 2016 cant recall the source. O well redesign the thing…

[ggk]

At long last, a solution or workaround to this annoyance seems to be to set the border property to none.