[AccessD] User interface

John, if you will be using Access 2010, you might enjoy the new Navigation 
Control, coupled with the BrowseTo method.

Regards
Steve

-----Original Message----- 
From: jwcolby
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:16 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] User interface

It has been awhile since I started a new Access project and I am just 
re-examining my user interface
techniques and wondering how you guys do things.  A good example of this is 
whether to use buttons
everywhere such as new record, save etc.  In the past I typically used "user 
training", and the new
users are expected to use the record selector to go to a new record, do 
saves by clicking out of the
form or moving on to a new record etc.

The specific databases I am working on right now are for people not 
necessarily familiar with a
database or data entry and so specific buttons can allow icons and control 
tip text to make things
easier to learn.  OTOH they take up a lot of room.

I have written a fairly sophisticated framework that allows me to do things 
like combo double click
opening a form to display the data table behind the combo.  I have clients 
who like that, and their
users are trained on such things, but it is not clear however that in an 
environment where the user
is totally unsophisticated, allowing these kinds of things is appropriate. 
In this case perhaps
specific users should have this ability but not the general public so to 
speak.

What are your thoughts on the user interface.  Feel free to write lists of 
things you do in your
user interface.