[AccessD] A2K: Drag and Drop with Access

Ah.  I get you.  Sorry.  I mistakenly detected a tone of incredulty
that drag n' drop could be useful in Access.  Once again, the
shortcomings of non-inflected text communication rears it's ugly
head!  ;)

-C-

---- Original Message ----
From: cfoust at infostatsystems.com
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: Drag and Drop with Access
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:08:21 -0700

>I wasn't saying it couldn't be useful, but if you don't know the 
>purpose
>of the action, the suggestions are likely to be off target.  If you 
>need
>a hammer, it doesn't help if some hands you a nail!
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:42 AM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: Drag and Drop with Access
>
>
>Drag and drop could be very useful, Charlotte.  As useful as in any
>other application.
>
>For example, I worked for a company that had a variable compensation
>product.  If we could have allowed the users to assign people or
>department to different compensation plans by dragging and dropping 
>the
>person or group's name over to a folder (or something) for the
>appropriate plan, everyone would have been ecstatic.
>
>Just one instance where I can see it would be useful.
>
>Sadly, we never pulled it off.
>
>I worked for another company that managed to hack out a fair 
>drag-n-drop
>in an Access 2000 app, but I never got to look at the code.
>
>-Christopher-
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: cfoust at infostatsystems.com
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: Drag and Drop with Access
>Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:24:48 -0700
>
>>Where are you going with this?  What purpose is being served by the
>>drag
>>and drop?
>>
>>Charlotte Foust
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Darren DICK [mailto:d.dick at uws.edu.au]
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:59 PM
>>To: AccessD List
>>Subject: [AccessD] A2K: Drag and Drop with Access
>>
>>
>>Hi All
>>Anyone have any success with dragging and dropping of controls onto 
>>Access forms? Eg I have an Image control displaying an image and 
>say 
>>it's in the top left corner of the form. I want to 'click' onto the 
>>image control and 'drag' it to say... the bottom left corner of the 
>>form.
>>
>>I have found heaps of samples for VB but they use VB only events 
>etc, 
>>that I can't replicate or fudge in Access.
>>
>>Any suggestions??
>>
>>Many thanks in advance
>>
>>Darren
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