In Form View, don't see form objects

[Gates Is Antichrist]

In my quest to further lower the bar of newbie stupidity:

I have Form1. I painted a 1X1 inch command button there after clicking it on the toolbox. (I also attached code to the button.) There is no data; there is no table; there is no RecordSource.

When I View Form (i.e. hit F5), I just see grey - i.e., no button. In wondering if it incredibly happened to be off the edge of the maximixed screen, I tried using Tab and spacebar to get to the button(even if I couldn't see it). No dice. There's no button to be pushed.

I can't find any Falses in Visible or Enable, though they'd make sense as the culprit.

Since there is no data, perhaps it is notable that (in Design mode) the button appears in the "detail" section. Okay, maybe that's it. Well if so, why can't I see it either when I move the button to Page Header?

The deal is, I want to have a control form to make decisions (e.g., select database from listbox), prior to opening a RecordSource.

Help?

 

[Dugantrain]

Well, your command button would naturally be in the Detail. You can see it in Design View but not in Form View? That's pretty odd, although if you look in the Properties for the button, there will be a "Visible" button. It defaults to yes, but check and see if it's set to "No". What kind of code did you write behind the button? And what other code is in the form?

 

[Gates Is Antichrist]

All good tries. Visible is true. The code never executes (unless Beep, Stop, and the red breakpoint are all liars ) so the code doesn't matter.

Other code? Good idea. well, all there is is a form timer (which simply beeps right now).

 

[Gates Is Antichrist]

To recap:

Start In design view
View Toolbox
click command button
draw a command button (in either page header or in Detail)
a useless wizard arises - hit cancel to it
F5 run
Voila - no button
Alt-F4
it's right back there in design

Yes this is bizarre. It's looking like it needs a thinking-out-of-the-box solution.

P.S. There is indeed only 1 form, according to Project Explorer (Ctrl-R).

 

[Gates Is Antichrist]

This self-resolved. Perhaps it was simply a reboot. Since the Antichrist's Wintel henchmen keep startup speeds commensurate with their cluelessness, I am always averse to rebooting

 

[Dugantrain]

That's good, because to be honest, I had not the first clue (aside from repairing your set-up) as to what the solution could have been. The only draw-back is that you can't replicate such a weird problem in case it crops up again, but I'm sure you've already considered that.