Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu Aug 21 09:54:04 CDT 2003
JohnsComputerHasMeltedDown. There, now whenever your computer melts down, just put that into the search in the archives and you'll get this post! <grin> Drew -----Original Message----- From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:13 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile Way cool! Too bad I'll never be able to find that again the next time my computer melts down and I have to rebuild it. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Susan Geller Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:58 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile Thanks Charlotte and Stuart. I had the right idea but had done a couple of things slightly wrong -- no room for errors! So, the upshot is that it is possible to decompile an ADP file! --Susan -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Sanders [mailto:stuart at pacific.net.hk] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:48 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile Thinking about this I thought of a cool (in my view) way of handling this, that is probably what Susan was talking about. Now I'm wondering why I didn't do this years ago. 1. Start Windows Explorer, 2. Select Tools and then Folder Options... 3. Click on the File Types Tab 4. Find the MDB file type 5. Click Advanced 6. Chances are there are 2 options. Open in bold font (denoting default) and New. You can pretty much add what you want here. For decompile, 7. Click New 8. Under action type Decompile 9. Under Application used to perform action type the equivalent for your install: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile "%1" 10 Click OK and exit out And wallah! You now right click an mdb and have the context option of decompiling it. But it doesn't stop there. For those of us juggling multiple versions of Access you can setup a right click option to open in each. Eg Open in 97 Open in 2000 Open in XP And make sure the path points to the correct version of access. Cheers Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte > Foust > Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 5:51 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile > > > I have Send To shortcuts on my WinXP box, if that's what you're > talking about. The path you show isn't the default for Office XP, so > is that the actual syntax or an approximation? In WinXP, the sendto > shortcuts are in the SendTo folder under your profile in Documents and > Settings. Mine looks like this: > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" "%1" > /decompile > > Charlotte Foust > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan Geller [mailto:sgeller at cce.umn.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:40 PM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: [AccessD] Decompile > > > I have Windows XP, Access XP and I'm trying to decompile my ADP file. > > I had this set up on another computer, but that was Windows 2000. I > did this using this type of syntax > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile > "%1" > > In such a way that when I right clicked on a file, I had the option to > decompile. > > I followed the same instructions on this computer and there is no > right click option when I clicked on mdb or adp files. > > Ideas? > > --Susan > > Susan B. Geller > Office of Information Systems > College of Continuing Education > University of Minnesota > 306 Wesbrook Hall > 77 Pleasant Street SE > Minneapolis, MN 55455 > Phone: 612-626-4785 > Fax: 612-625-2568 > > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com