[AccessD] Your favorite control behavior

I have a function called aaNotInList() which takes the same parms as the
NotInList function and adds two new ones -- the name of the form to open
when adding an item, and the "human" name of said entity, the latter
just to pretty up the messagebox that comes up. The functon asks if you
want to add a new "XXX" (4th parm) and if so opens the specified form,
which uses the typical code to hide itself on OK and close itself on
Cancel. Then the function does the usual "add to list and accept the
value" and closes the form. It works great but I still have to type in
that line of code every time I need one. Not that one line of code is a
major hassle, I guess, but can you think of a class-based way to do
this? It might be more fun to do it that way.

Arthur

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:24 PM
To: AccessD
Subject: [AccessD] Your favorite control behavior


I am taking suggestions for control behaviors that you have found useful
and have programmed controls to perform in the past.

For example I program the back color of combos, lists and text boxes to
change to a given color as they get the focus, and back to their
original color as they lose the focus.  This helps to avoid the "where's
the cursor" questions.

Another example, I program the double-click of a combo to open a form to
allow editing the data in the table that the combo pulls from.  In
addition, if a combo is programmed to perform this behavior, I
dynamically set its label's back color to a specific color.  this is a
visual cue that "this combo has the dbl-click behavior activated"

What kinds of things do you have your controls do?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


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