Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Thu Apr 6 23:11:48 CDT 2006
Occasionally I have posed on this site as a person who knows what he is doing. Forgive me for that, since I know nothing. I have a client who wants every single control on every single form to be sized 12 point not the default 10. I have another client who is quite satisfied with 10 point. Is there a way to establish a compiler directive or global var or whatever, such that in App 1 the AutoForm will respect 12 point while in App 2 the AutoForm will respect 10 point? (I only mention AutoForm because if it works there then I assume it will work everywhere.) This same question probably also extends to font (client A likes Arial, client B likes Times Roman). Can this be done? Or must I continue with this inane form-by-form selection and resizing ad nauseum? Solutions requested! Client A wants 12 point Arial everywhere. Client B wants 10 point Times Roman everywhere. I begin most of my forms based on an underlying query. I also (unlike many on this list) define every lookup etc. thoroughly at the table level (i.e. in the BE I state that CustomerID in the Orders table is a lookup into the Customers table). I do this so that I can inherit the definition in all subsequent forms and reports. I realize that many of you do not do this, and I don't want this to get sidetracked into a discussion about that. I want to concentrate on the question of how to default all AutoForms (and custom forms too) to default to control-font-size = 10 v. 12 and control-font = Arial v. Courier or something else. Can this be done, and if so how? TIA, Arthur