[AccessD] event identification

You can also find an event logger in ADH, in chapter 2 in the 2000 and 2002 versions.
> 
> From: "Colby, John" <JColby at dispec.com>
> Date: 2004/11/09 Tue PM 12:46:02 EST
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> 	<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] event identification
> 
> Susan,
> 
> I have never found a single place to go, particularly for sequence.  The
> order of events can get really strange, particularly if you throw in form /
> subform loads, subform enter / exit etc.  In the Access help somewhere there
> is a generic order of events for the form events, and the control events,
> but it definitely cannot tell the whole story.
> 
> As far as what's going on behind the scenes... you don't even want to know.
> Now you get into things like mouse clicks where Windows hands the mouse
> event to Access which translates it into a form / control event.  Normally
> Windows directly hands a mouse event to the window the mouse is inside of -
> Window meaning a window object, anything square.  That object has to decide
> how to handle the click.  Objects inside of Access are not true windows to
> windows, thus the mouse event has to be translated by Access using the
> position in the Access window etc.  
> 
> Similarly key down/up/press... is it handled by the form or by the control?
> What if the control should but doesn't? (it ripples up to the form AFAIK).
> 
> Events are a rather deep subject.
> 
> I think I have a widget on my site that uses the control classes and form
> class to debug.print all the events that fire, in the order fired as you do
> anything in the form.  If you want to use it I will need to go look around
> and see what it is called.  It was part of the lecture series I think.
> 
> John W. Colby
> The DIS Database Guy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Harkins [mailto:ssharkins at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:21 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] event identification
> 
> 
> BTW, does anyone have a good online resource for an explanation of the
> Access event model -- sequence and what's going on behind the scenes? I just
> need to check things before I go on record and in my usual search-challenged
> way, I can't find anything worth squat. :( 
> 
> Susan H. 
> 
> That's what I thought. Thanks guys!
> 
> Susan H. 
> 
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