[AccessD] Refreshing open forms when something changes

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jun 22 13:45:40 CDT 2011


 > Call me lazy, but I'm getting old.

LOL, me too.  That is why I use classes.  It just makes so many solutions so much easier.

:)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 6/22/2011 2:26 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> IMO, what all this JC class stuff needs is a wizard, because there are too
> many steps required to get it all right. I have followed JC's threads and
> implemented them, but it is a lot of work, in several different modules. IMO
> it ought to work similarly to MzTools, with an add-in that requests the form
> in which to implement this stuff, and automatically adds the code to declare
> the class references, etc.
>
> Call me lazy, but I'm getting old.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>>
>>>     I'm not sure what it is I'm micromanaging<g>; all I pointed out was
>> that if you implemented a message class as you outlined in your first post,
>> it would be inefficient.  That was, and I think you would have to agree
>> given your responses since then, a legitimate point.
>>
>> To be honest I do not think it is inefficient at all.  It would be
>> inefficient if it made any damned difference at all.  It doesn't.  It would
>> be inefficient if it were sucking up processor cycles.  It isn't.  Is it the
>> absolutely most efficient method of accomplishing the objective?  No, but it
>> makes no damned difference.  If I were to re-engineer it to be as efficient
>> as possible I would save 1 trillionth of a percent of whatever metric you
>> choose.
>>
>>
>>> programmer takes the attitude of "it's just a few extra cycles", then
>> sooner or latter, you end up with a problem.
>>
>> If every programmer in the world wasted a few trillionths of a percent of
>> whatever metric you choose, it would make no damned difference whatsoever.
>>   This method, even taken to the extreme, used in every single form in every
>> Access program running on the planet is never going to waste more than a few
>> processor cycles.
>>
>> The whole point of events is that processing only happens when an event
>> happens.  Events can only be raised and sunk in classes so if you don't use
>> classes then you don't use events.  If you aren't using events that you
>> almost certainly doing some very inefficient programming.
>>
>>



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