[AccessD] =function() in .onclick

LOL.  That's especially amusing William because it is you who kept telling
me "stop it with the tag stuff and just give me a function to load these
things".

See, I do listen occasionally.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:15 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] =function() in .onclick


...great thread ...every once in a while I still manage to learn something
from you :)

William Hindman


----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] =function() in .onclick


> Chris,
>
> I credit Shamil with teaching me everything I know about Withevents.  I
> would never have discovered them, and would not be where I am today in
> Access without his examples and his prodding to look at WithEvents.
>
> If you looked at Shamil's stuff you will see where he places the [Event
> Procedure] in the control's event procedure using code inside the Init
event
> of the class itself as the class instantiates.  That is where I learned to
> do this and one reason I so dislike developers putting function calls in
> those properties.
>
> I used to use the tag property a lot using ADH code to set and read them.
> Once I started using classes I moved away from that to either setting
> properties directly in the class init or (in the case of my scanner, where
> it's more generic) using class properties to set these values later.
There
> are pluses and minuses to using the tag - the control carries it's
> initialization properties with it, but if any other developer uses the tag
> yours can get trashed.  I finally just stopped using it although there is
> still ONE place I do, and that is in my Just In Time form loading, where I
> place the form name in the tag.  If it's there it will do JIT, otherwise
it
> just loads normally.
>
> I would like to thank you though for the hint about input masks.  My users
> have been pushing me to "standardize" the date inputmasks and using my
> framework I can do just that quite easily.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com