[AccessD] =function() in .onclick

Hello All,
 Since I'm just learning this type of programming technique I thought I
would ask a question...

  Why not use Implements instead of WithEvents?  My limited understand of
WithEvents is that they will not return functionality unit they (the event)
has completed processing... Since I'm just at the "door" so to speak with
learning how to use and incorporate these new (to me) programming techniques
into my work, I really want to start out using the "best" technique...


Robert Gracie
www.servicexp.com












-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:44 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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