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You Cannot Reference A Property Or Method For A Control Unless The Control Has The Focus

up Access 2010 Runtime Error 2185 up vote 1 down vote favorite Hi I have an application created in Access 2007, it's front-end and back-end is split. I am trying to open the database using Access 2010 runtime, however the application crashes when I change selected item of a combo box. I receive the following error: "Execution of this application has stopped due runtime error 424 to a run-time error. The application can't continue and will be shut down." After researching the problem, a few people mentioned running the compact and repair, and found that fixed their problem, however it made no difference to mine. However, I found most people to come back and say put some error logging in place. So I have done that, and when running on 2010 runtime, a receive a pop up message saying the following: Error number: 2185, You can't reference a property or method for a control unless the control has the focus. However when running in Access 2007, there is no error and the code works fine. This is the code I have been using: Private Sub ComboBox1_Change() If Not ComboBox1.Text = "" Then ComboBox1.Dropdown End If End Sub My question is, why would this suddenly become an issue running on 2010 runtime, when there is no error in Access 2007? ms-access ms-access-2007 runtime-error ms-access-2010 share|improve this question asked Mar 22 '13 at 11:15 Mike 815 I had a few odd problems switching my test databases to 2010, but decompile sorted them ou

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masks for dates on forms. I usually add code to force the cursor to the beginning of the text box using SelStart. Private Sub txtDate1_GotFocus() Me.txtDate1.SelStart = 0 End Sub I created a form and the above field functioned fine. After I added more controls and code I began to get a Run-time 2185 error -You can't reference a property or method for a control unless the control has the focus. Anyone know what causes this or is my form corrupted in some way? Thanks in advance for any help or insight, -- Scott S Guest, Nov 8, 2007 #1 Advertisements Allen Browne Guest Scott, the only case that comes to mind is where: - You have a form that contains no records, and - No new records can be added. In this case, the detail section goes completely blank. Any controls in the Form Header or Form Footer sections still show, but Access gets confused and can show this error message. More info in the first section of this article: http://allenbrowne.com/bug-06.html -- Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. "ScottS" <> wrote in message news:... >I have been using input masks for dates on forms. I usually add code to > force the cursor to the beginning of the text box using SelStart. > > Private Sub txtDate1_GotFocus() > Me.txtDate1.SelStart = 0 > End Sub > > I created a form and the above field functioned fine. After I added more > controls and code I began to get a Run-time 2185 error -You can't > reference a > property or method for a control unless the control has the focus. > > Anyone know what causes this or is my form corrupted in some way? > > Thanks in advance for any help or insight, > -- > Scott S Allen Browne, Nov 9, 2007 #2 Advertisements Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com Guest "You can't reference a property or method for a control unless the control has the focus." So Access is saying that you're trying to do something to ControlA that you can only do when ControlA has focus, and ControlA doesn't have focus! One possibilty that comes to mind, especially when you speak of adding multiple controls and using the identical code on all of them, is that you've copied and pasted code and forgotten to change the control name in the code. Say you start with Private Sub txtDate1_GotFocus() Me.txtDate1.SelStart = 0 End Sub then you add a new field, txtDate2. You copy and paste the above sub, and change txtDate1 to txtDate2 in the sub title, but forget to do so in the body of the sub, so that you end up with this Private Sub txtDa