[AccessD] =function() in .onclick

...I learned the hard way to loathe tag use ...nothing like writing reams of
cbf using tags only to have some #$%#$'s library write right over them ...it
was a sobering exercise and wearing on my expletives vocabulary :))))

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State!


----- 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 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: [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
>
>
>
>
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