[AccessD] Drag & Drop Utility

Hi Darren

I haven't paid this util much notice ... but wouldn't it be possible
to build a poor man's (= user safe) report "designer" this way -
without having the user have access to reports in design mode.

A form could simulate the report layout. Then the user could move the
controls around and resize and change fonts etc. All it does is saving
the positions and a few other properties in a table which you read at
report open?

Drew? 20 minutes and a cigarette. Much more needed?

/gustav


> 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" <bis at albury.net.au>
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> 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.