[AccessD] Floor Plan Grid

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 07:56:31 CST 2005


William,

Another thought: is this something that might be more appropriate in a Data
Access Page or as an embedded spreadsheet grid?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On 11/8/05, William Hindman <wdhindman at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> ...need some ideas here ...or if someone knows of something already.
>
> ...Access 2003 runtime compatible.
>
> ...I need to display on a single Access form ...a grid of as many as 2000
> rectangles.
>
> ...the rectangles would represent booths in a trade show floor plan
> ...each
> distinctly numbered
> and each clickable to call detail data ...and each individually colored to
> reflect status.
>
> ...did I mention that I'd like to be able to zoom and pan the grid?
>
> ...I've tried a number of activex products like metadraw ...but all
> require
> compromises I
> don't want to make.
>
> ...did I mention this needs to be reasonably fast in 2.6Mhz, 1gb ram
> workstations?
>
> ...ok ...I'm nuts ...but I thought I'd at least throw it out there ...my
> head hurts from too much
> pounding against the wall :)
>
> ...still no electric as a result of Wilma ...working on a laptop sucks
> bigtime ...but it is work.
>
> William
>
>



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