[AccessD] max number of controls

...tab control time ...use subforms on the tab control ...the tabcontrol
counts against the main form  ...controls on the subforms count against
them, not the main form :)

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Do you want liberty in your lifetime?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pedro Janssen" <pedro at plex.nl>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] max number of controls


> A form where you can select 10 different options.
> Each option has 30 controls, which i all need for filling fields in word
> with mailmerge.
> Add a few other controls to it and you have four hundred controls.
>
> Pedro Janssen
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] max number of controls
>
>
> > ...four HUNDRED controls!!!!!!
> > ...jumpin' jehozephat!!! ...what in the world could possibly require 400
> > controls?
> >
> > William Hindman
> > <http://www.freestateproject.org> - Do you want liberty in your
lifetime?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pedro Janssen" <pedro at plex.nl>
> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] max number of controls
> >
> >
> > > I did indeed run out of screen, long before i did run out of controls.
> > > But i fixed that problem by making everything on the form a little bit
> > > smaller.
> > > But now i was running out of controls. I shall recreate the form and
see
> > if
> > > i can add then new controls. This form indeed has had some changes in
> the
> > > past years, and there are about 400 hundred controls on the form,
> > > but i can't imagine that i deleted a few hundred controls in the past.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the response
> > >
> > > Pedro Janssen
> > > Cytologist
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> > > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> > > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:56 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] max number of controls
> > >
> > >
> > > > Are you making them "pages" of the form?  Can you replace the pages
> with
> > a
> > > > tab and place controls on the tabs instead?  It seems like you'd run
> out
> > > of
> > > > screen long before you ran out of control "slots".
> > > >
> > > > John W. Colby
> > > > www.colbyconsulting.com
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Pedro
> Janssen
> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:03 AM
> > > > To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > > > Subject: [AccessD] max number of controls
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello Group,
> > > >
> > > > is there a maximum number of controls that i can use on a form ( i
get
> > an
> > > > error, maximum number of controls reached). Is there a way to go
round
> > > this,
> > > > or can i better not use that many controls on one form and why?
> > > >
> > > > Pedro Janssen
> > > > Cytologist
> > > >
> > > >
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