[AccessD] Table naming conventions

Heenan, Lambert Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com
Fri Mar 3 13:44:10 CST 2006


Perhaps part of the confusion is caused by terminology. In Access land,
objects have "Properties" and "Methods". There is no such thing as a
"Member", except in the informal sense which means either a Property or a
Method.

Lambert :-)

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
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Yes, I understand that, Lambert.  But when you create a custom collection
object and you refer to the members of that collection, you use the dot
operator, not the bang.  I didn't have a handy example, so I fell back on
what I posted to illustrate.  Arrays are much easier to work with, but
collections have a charm all their own. ;o}

Charlotte Foust


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" Me.Controls" is not referring to the members of the Controls collection.
It is referring to the Controls collection itself, which is property of a
Form object.

So Me.Controls is a legitimate use of the dot operator to access a property.


Lambert


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For Each ctl in Me.Controls ...


Charlotte


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
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>But you also use the dot operator to refer to members of a collection,
>and
the controls are members of the parent object's controls collection.

I'm not following you on this one.  Can you give an example?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
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But you also use the dot operator to refer to members of a collection,
and the controls are members of the parent object's controls collection.
;o>

Charlotte Foust


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:47 PM
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>Using Dot to refer to properties is known to cause weirdnesses.

Ooops.  Using Dot to refer to Objects can cause weirdnesses.

Sorry for the confusion.

I can think of at least one exception (kind of) however.  To refer to a
control on a subform, the syntax is me!SubformControl.Subform!Control.
In this case I think that .Subform is a PROPERTY of the subformControl
which returns a pointer to an object (the actual loaded subform).  So
even here Dot is the correct syntax.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:55 PM
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LOL, because it is the wrong syntax and can cause the vba interpreter to
get confused and do stupid things.  In the early days of Access,
me.object was the accepted syntax.  Sometime around A97 Microsoft
switched to the ! As the "accepted" syntax.  Dot is for properties, Bang
is for objects.  Using Dot to refer to properties is known to cause
weirdnesses.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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