Urgh, reading Helen reply I've realized that you wrote IB_Text and I
thought about IB_Edit...
Well, just to add to Helen reply that IB_Text, in recent IBO version,
has a complete set of border property, so you can set a border to see
what happens at runtime.
I would put Autosize to false too.
regards
Marco Menardi

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> At 03:45 PM 14/02/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Help! I am using a table TIB_Query with TIB_Text even so do I notice
> >that component TIB_Text disappears in Run-time, what can be
> >happening? Is a BUG of component TIB_Text?
> >Thanks
>
> It possibly indicates that there is no data in the column which is
bound to
> the control. Either the dataset is not open, or the current row in the
> dataset is null, blank or emptystr. Because it is a non-bordered
control,
> it is invisible when empty.
>
> If this is not the case, check up on your colors. If the font color
and
> the control color are the same, the data won't be visible. Also look
to see
> whether the Visible property is true...
>
> Helen