Highlight Selected Control or Column in Continuous Forms

Опубликовано: 26 Май 2026
на канале: Isladogs On Access
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This video demonstrates how to highlight the selected control or column in continuous forms using transparency and accessibility code

For more info, see my article: https://isladogs.co.uk/highlight-sele...

Times:
0:00 Intro
0:22 DEMO - Highlight selected control & entire column
0:44 Deisgn view - controls have transparent background but were originally set as yellow,.
1:10 When clicked, control automatically gains a solid background whilst it has focus so appears highlighted
1:26 Highlight column by clicking column header label
2:11 HighlightControlFromLabel - uses accessibility function AccHitTest to determine label name and the related control.
It then clears existing back style and sets the back style of the selected column to normal to highlight it
4:07 Summary
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