[AccessD] Drag & Drop Utility

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Toves" <itsame2000 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Drag & Drop Utility


> I don't know if it was mentioned on a previous email.  Where can a person get the drag and drop download?  What is the cost?
> 
> Thanks!
>  
> 
> 
> Darren DICK <d.dick at uws.edu.au> wrote:Hi John
> Yes the drag and drop just gives you the ability to 'move' things on the screen
> It is up to you to specify how you store 'the new coordinates'
> In my 'in use' application I have fields in a table that hold the 
> Top, Left, Height, Width for each control on my 'ID Card' design area.
> So I have 8 controls on my ID card so I have 32 fields in my table that do nothing but
> hold the new coordinates for each move. On the mouse up I record where the 'Drop' 
> finished and I put those 'coordinates' straight into the table.
> When the ID Card design form is opened I get those coordinates and 'move' 
> all the controls to where they were last dropped.
> 
> But there would be a myriad of ways to achieve this much more cleverly than what I am doing
> 
> Make sense?
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Harris" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:10 PM
> Subject: [AccessD] Drag & Drop Utility
> 
> 
> > Greetings from Australia!!
> > 
> > I have just downloaded a copy of your D & D utility. Just what I need.
> > 
> > One question though: I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that one purpose
> > of the utility is to allow controls to be moved when in form view.
> > This would allow users for example to define their own form layout (at
> > least for the items that were D&D enabled). On this basis, I assumed
> > that if I move controls with D&D when in form view, I would still be
> > asked to save the changes on exit - this does not happen.
> > 
> > Am I misinterpreting the purpose of this utility.
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