[AccessD] Colors in a combo box

Hi Stuart

How nice!
Brings back memories of countless hours spent in my young days with the soldering iron mounting genious printed circuit boards of own construction ...

/gustav

>>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 15-02-2006 03:34 >>>
On 14 Feb 2006 at 17:45, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:

> Dear List:
> 
> Can you make a combo box display a list of colored boxes?  Noah's 
> putting together a program to give the value of a resistor if you select the
> colors of the rings.  The combo box is currently a list of the colors. But
> it would be much cooler if it dropped down the colors instead of a list.  Is
> this possible?
> 

I think you will have to do something with stacking columns of labels, - 
wait a minute...........

How about something like this:
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/Resistor.gif 

Option Groups, Radio buttons and coloured labels.
Up to you to do the maths, but you can have a copy of the form if you want 
it <g>


-- 
Stuart