I have attached a screen shot of a form with a tab control. We are having an issue where the tabs are disappearing during data entry.
At this time the problem has manifested its self in two different databases on two separate computers. On my workstation I have not had the tab's disappear as of yet. The two computers that have experienced the issue are both running the runtime version of alpha5 ver8. I am running a developer's copy of alpha5.
At this time I am unable to reproduce this error, but we do experience it around 2-3 times a week in one database. When we are entering data into the form, we start on the left most tab and work our way to the right. We use tab stops to navigate from field to field. We will see the problem start after we leave the first tab, the first tab will disappear as in the screen shot but all of the other tabs will still look fine. Once the first tab has disappeared the other tabs will disappear as soon as you click to different tab. Once the tab has disappeared you can not click it to view the tab. Closing the form and re-opening it will temporarily correct the problem, the tabs return but as you leave them they disappear one by one. Currently we are stuck at shutting down Alpha5 and restarting it. This will typically buy us a day or two before we see the problem again.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing it? I have not submitted a bug report as of yet, because I am not sure if it is a bug or a programming error.
Side note -
The problem has been reported in two separate databases. One of those databases is a copy of our MD billing application. There are 8 copies of this database that we use. All 8 copies are the exact same in structure and code used. Only one of the 8 has experienced this problem, that one is our biggest of them all. Typically the problem wont be seen until we have entered several records (i.e. around 50+ records). The other 7 MD billing databases do not experience this amount of data entry at one time, nor have they experienced this issue.
The other report that I have had of this issue came from an accounting database package. Two people use that database, only one person has reported the tabs disappearing issue from that database.
At this time the problem has manifested its self in two different databases on two separate computers. On my workstation I have not had the tab's disappear as of yet. The two computers that have experienced the issue are both running the runtime version of alpha5 ver8. I am running a developer's copy of alpha5.
At this time I am unable to reproduce this error, but we do experience it around 2-3 times a week in one database. When we are entering data into the form, we start on the left most tab and work our way to the right. We use tab stops to navigate from field to field. We will see the problem start after we leave the first tab, the first tab will disappear as in the screen shot but all of the other tabs will still look fine. Once the first tab has disappeared the other tabs will disappear as soon as you click to different tab. Once the tab has disappeared you can not click it to view the tab. Closing the form and re-opening it will temporarily correct the problem, the tabs return but as you leave them they disappear one by one. Currently we are stuck at shutting down Alpha5 and restarting it. This will typically buy us a day or two before we see the problem again.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing it? I have not submitted a bug report as of yet, because I am not sure if it is a bug or a programming error.
Side note -
The problem has been reported in two separate databases. One of those databases is a copy of our MD billing application. There are 8 copies of this database that we use. All 8 copies are the exact same in structure and code used. Only one of the 8 has experienced this problem, that one is our biggest of them all. Typically the problem wont be seen until we have entered several records (i.e. around 50+ records). The other 7 MD billing databases do not experience this amount of data entry at one time, nor have they experienced this issue.
The other report that I have had of this issue came from an accounting database package. Two people use that database, only one person has reported the tabs disappearing issue from that database.
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